Ineffective spending and waste in health care systems: Framework and findings

This chapter presents the overall framework and approach that guided development of the report as well as its main findings. Starting with a simple and pragmatic definition of waste, the first section identifies and groups various categories of waste. This framework is later used to identify policy levers to tackle these different types of waste. The next three sections provide an overview of the report’s findings regarding wasteful clinical care, operational waste and governance-related waste, respectively. The concluding section points to the benefits of tackling different categories of waste and presents the organisation of the overall report.