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  • Health Services Research
  • Laboratory Medicine
  • Healthcare Management

Background:

  • Healthcare budgets face pressure to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
  • Pathology investigations cost the UK National Health Service £2.5 billion annually.
  • The Carter Review estimated 20% savings in pathology services and 25% of tests being unnecessary.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review approaches to demand management in pathology testing.
  • To define demand management and inappropriate requesting.
  • To provide a toolkit for developing standardized demand management strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Review of approaches to demand management in pathology.
  • Examination of drivers for demand management.
  • Illustration of electronic requesting potential.
  • Discussion of educational approaches, IT, vetting, and performance indicators.

Main Results:

  • Significant potential for cost savings exists by reducing unnecessary pathology tests.
  • Variability in test requesting suggests widespread inappropriate requests.
  • Electronic requesting offers potential for improved demand management.

Conclusions:

  • Standardized demand management strategies are needed in laboratories.
  • Effective demand management can lead to major implications for patients and healthcare resources.
  • A toolkit approach can help laboratories develop consistent demand management strategies.