Table 3 Examples of alternatives for the term ‘disinvestment’
Scope | Alternative terms |
|---|---|
Used interchangeably with disinvestment | Decommissioning, removing ineffective services, resource release, defunding, rationing [27] |
Introduced to capture an aspect of disinvestment | |
Proposed to capture the process of disinvestment better | Displacement, reallocation, reinvestment [6] |
Used to avoid the word disinvestment | Prioritisation, reappraisal, reprioritisation, optimisation, substitutional reinvestment, evidence-based reassessment [38], value for money, therapeutic equivalence, allocative reinvestment, reducing waste, bending the cost curve, contract variation, contract management, service redesign [101] |