Table 2 Additional systematic methods to identify potential disinvestment opportunities in a local health service

▪ Consider disinvestment explicitly in long term planning exercises

▪ Discuss principles of disinvestment and examples of successful projects at department/unit meetings, educational events, etc

▪ Assign member of decision-making committees to look for disinvestment opportunities in their decisions

▪ Add a disinvestment question to the Leadership Walkround protocol

▪ Identify clinical champions interested in disinvestment in each program/department/unit who would look out for opportunities

▪ Encourage support staff who have undertaken a disinvestment project to look for more opportunities

▪ Have disinvestment as a high priority in medication safety reviews

▪ Encourage or require projects that are introducing something new to have a component of disinvestment

▪ Review projects that are being conducted for other reasons and identify and focus on any disinvestment elements

▪ Introduce thinking about disinvestment into quality improvement training programs