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

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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Why clinical quality improvement fails to deliver bottom-line results

"As the U.S. health care system begins shifting its focus from volume to value, hospitals will need to adapt their cost structures and capacity to accommodate lower per capita utilization rates as well as reductions in the per-episode intensity of care."

The savings illusion - why clinical quality improvement fails to deliver bottom-line results
SS Rauh, EB Wadsworth, WB Weeks, JN Weinstein
New England Journal of Medicine, 2011, 365:e48

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Reducing expenditure on low clinical value treatments

This health briefing suggests that the NHS could save up to £500 million a year by carrying out fewer ineffective or inefficient treatments.

Reducing expenditure on low clinical value treatments
Audit Commission
April 2011

Read a summary or download the full version here.

Delivering QIPP by redesigning iron deficiency services

"Redesigning intravenous iron services is an excellent way of delivering QIPP improvements to patient care by dramatically reducing hospital visits and improving service efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Currently, the treatment of iron deficiency involves multiple visits to the hospital but a drug called Ferinject from Vifor Pharma administers all the iron a patient needs in one 30 minute visit.

Watch this video to find out how this patient-centric service is saving the NHS money and promoting faster recovery and better outcomes."

Delivering QIPP by redesigning iron deficiency services
HealthExecTV
April 2011

View video here (free registration needed to view content)

Can we save money by improving quality

"This paper uses research evidence to assess the contribution that quality-improvement can make as a central component of cost reduction."

Can we save money by improving quality
M Marshall, J Ovretveit
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2011, 20(4):293-296

Read more here.

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Many of the other articles in this issue focus on quality-improvement collaboratives.