How is the NHS performing?

"This fifth report aims to take stock of what has happened over the past year – the first year of the £20 billion productivity challenge for the NHS – and provide an update on how the NHS is coping as it continues to grapple with this challenge and implement the government’s NHS reforms."

How is the NHS performing? Quarterly monitoring report
The King's Fund
May 2012

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The economic impact of improvements in primary healthcare performance

"Better health outcomes have a positive impact on employment, productivity and economic growth."

The economic impact of improvements in primary healthcare performance
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
May 2012

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Sharing commissioning experiences

“Right Care enables sharing of good practice by compiling local examples of commissioning work, which demonstrate the philosophy behind Right Care or showcases the tools available through the programme.”

Sharing commissioning experiences: The Right Care Casebook Series: Volume 2
NHS Right Care
March 2012

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Fulfilling the potential: a better journey for patients and a better deal for the NHS

"The future delivery of medical care will need to focus, not only on the development of innovative treatments, but on reducing the levels of stress associated with the delivery of in-patient care."

Fulfilling the potential: a better journey for patients and a better deal for the NHS
NHS Enhanced Recovery Partnership
NHS Improvement
April 2012

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Get e-QIPP-ed for neurology

"This booklet illustrates examples of innovative service delivery, prevention of unnecessary interventions, and initiatives that simultaneously improve service efficiency and cost effectiveness alongside quality of patient care."

Get e-QIPP-ed for neurology: positive practice in service redesign
Neurological Commissioning Support Limited
March 2012

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Allied Health Professionals' QIPP Toolkits

"The Strategic Health Authority Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Leads for England have worked with NHS London to compile AHP QIPP Toolkits, designed to help commissioners design services that are of high quality whilst reducing cost."

Access the toolkits below:

• AHP Stroke Toolkit
• AHP Oral Nutritional Support Toolkit
• AHP Musculoskeletal Care Toolkit
• AHP Cancer Toolkit
• AHP Diabetes Toolkit

An economic case for involvement

"Meaningful involvement and shared decision making with patients and the public is a key enabler to improvements in quality, innovation, productivity and performance."

An economic case for involvement
InHealth Associates, Frontline, Department of Health
March 2012

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Access the free decision support tool here.

NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare for Children and Young Adults

"For the first time, variations across the breadth of child health services provided by NHS England are presented together to allow clinicians, commissioners and service users to identify priority areas for improving outcome, quality and productivity."

NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare for Children and Young Adults
Right Care Programme, in collaboration with the Child and Maternal Health Observatory
March 2012

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Access the online version here.

'Harm free' care

This initiative is the national roll out of the pilot Safety Express QIPP programme. 'Harm free' care is defined by the absence of pressure ulcers, falls, urinary catheters, and venous thromboembolism, and this collection of resources and case studies has been developed to reduce these incidents.

Find out more and access all the resources here.

Rationing health care

"The report therefore makes a number of recommendations for changes that could be made to improve the way the NHS benefits package is shaped, without going as far as specifying a national set of NHS-funded services."

Rationing health care
B Rumbold, V Alakeson, PC Smith
Nuffield Trust
February 2012

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Quality standard for patient experience in adult NHS services

"The aim of this quality standard is to provide the NHS with clear commissioning guidance on the components of a good patient experience."

Quality standard for patient experience in adult NHS services
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
February 2012

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Emergency day surgery: Improving productivity and reducing bed days

"QIPP Evidence provides users with practical case studies that address the quality and productivity challenge in health and social care."

Emergency day surgery: Improving productivity and reducing bed days
NHS Evidence - Quality and Productivity: proposed case study
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
January 2012

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Cost reduction in central government

"Despite the short timescale, departments successfully managed within their reduced spending allocations for 2010-11."

Cost reduction in central government: summary of progress
Cabinet Office and HM Treasury
February 2012

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Service-line management: Can it improve quality and efficiency?

Implementing Service Line Reporting and Service Line Management "works best when it is central to the overall management approach of the trust and part of its day-to-day way of working."

Service-line management: Can it improve quality and efficiency?
C Foot, L Sonola, J Maybin, C Naylor
The King's Fund
January 2012

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Cochrane quality and productivity topics

As part of the NHS Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) agenda, NICE and the UK Cochrane Centre are working together to summarise new Cochrane reviews which have shown that an intervention is either unsafe or cost ineffective.

Published each month, the Cochrane Quality and Productivity Topics “highlight potential disinvestment opportunities that can be used by the NHS to meet its overall QIPP targets, and include calculations of potential cost savings if implemented.”

Access the collection here.

Emergency bed use: what the numbers tell us

"Using hospital beds more efficiently could save the NHS at least £1 billion a year and deliver benefits for patients."


Emergency bed use: what the numbers tell us
The King's Fund
December 2011

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The quest for efficiency in the English NHS

"A competitive, flexible approach to health care delivery will promote innovation, making it possible to learn from health care providers that adopt diferent approaches to delivery."

Competition, integration and incentives: the quest for efficiency in the English NHS
AM Garber
The Nuffield Trust
December 2011

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Improving health and health care in London

"This paper reviews the progress made in improving health and health care in London in recent years and analyses the financial and service challenges facing the National Health Service (NHS) now and in the future."

Improving health and health care in London: who will take the lead?
J Appleby, C Ham, C Imison, T Harrison, S Boyle, B Ashton, J Thompson
The King's Fund
November 2011

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Delivering efficiency savings in the NHS

"This memorandum has been prepared for the Health Committee to support its review of public expenditure. It sets out how the NHS, supported by the Department of Health, plans to deliver efficiency savings of up to £20 billion by 2014-15."

NAO briefing for the House of Commons Health Committee: Delivering efficiency savings in the NHS
National Audit Office
September 2011 (published December 2011)

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Right Care

This brochure describes the work of the Right Care programme, which provides resources to support the QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity, Prevention). Click here to find out more.