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Table 8 Key themes and concerns emerging from the PBMA process and sessions as noted by the authors

From: A national Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA) of health improvement spending across Wales: disinvestment and reinvestment across the life course

Number

Key themes and concerns

1

There is no readily available source of information on wider spending in Welsh Government and Public Health Wales on health improvement to provide the big picture context to the exercise.

2

It is very difficult to find evidence of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness relating specifically to different time horizons or national versus local provision.

3

The panel may need information about the proportion of the population who may take up a service when thinking about budget share i.e. population affected.

4

What is the (purpose/function) role of the “budget” i.e., the pot of money under consideration? What makes it different from other budgets /pots of money?

5

How we might best assess the effect of combined interventions and integrated approaches?

6

How we might best assess the effect of combined interventions and integrated approaches?

7

Government priorities can sometimes be based upon serial decision making rather than parallel decision making.