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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Investing in emotional and psychological wellbeing for patients with long-term conditions

"This report brings together the evidence across diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and coronary heart disease, plus medically unexplained symptoms, to present a business case for investing in psychological services."

Investing in emotional and psychological wellbeing for patients with long-term conditions
Mental Health Network - NHS Confederation
April 2012

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"NHS Confederation summarises the new Mental Health Network report, and describes how primary and secondary health services can improve patient outcomes, while reducing the overall costs of care for the NHS."

Read a summary here.

Productivity of the English National Health Service 2003-4 to 2009-10

"Over the full period considered we find that increases in inputs have been matched closely by increases in output."

Productivity of the English National Health Service 2003-4 to 2009-10: CHE Research Paper 76
C Bojke, A Castelli, R Goudie, A Street, P Ward
Centre for Health Economics
University of York
March 2012

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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.

eLearning resources to improve patient care

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has formed a joint venture with Virtual College to develop the Productives e-learning suite. This suite is designed for staff, team leaders, programme managers and leaders to help them use The Productive Series: Releasing Time to Care (TM) programme. Read more here.

eLearning for Healthcare has developed "e-learning for Harm Free Care", an online educational resource designed to support frontline teams in delivering harm free care, as defined by an absence of four common harms: pressure ulcers, harm from falls, catheter acquired urinary tract infections (CaUTI) and venous thromboembolism (VTE).

Find out more here.

Healthy competition

"This report presents ten case studies of successful health reform. Each case study shows how a radical change in the delivery of healthcare can result in improved quality and productivity."

Healthy competition
T Cawston, A Haldenby, N Seddon
Reform
February 2012

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Does competition improve public hospitals' efficiency?

"Our results suggest that competition between public providers prompted public hospitals to improve their productivity by decreasing their pre-surgery, overall and post-surgery length of stay."

Does competition improve public hospitals' efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service
Z Cooper, S Gibbons, S Jones, A McGuire
Centre for Economic Performance
February 2012

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Webinar: The social imperative to demonstrate that better care = lower costs

9th February 2012 - 7pm-8pm GMT (2pm-3pm Eastern Time USA) - PLEASE CONFIRM TIME

Speakers:

• Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Former President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
• Gerard M. Shea, Assistant to the President for External Affairs, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

This webinar is provided by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in America. Find out more and register here.

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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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.

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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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.

Rapid impact assessment of The Productive Ward

"This Rapid Impact Assessment explores the efficiency and productivity improvements The Productive Ward programme can make across the NHS."

Rapid impact assessment of The Productive Ward: Releasing time to care
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
January 2011

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Management of NHS hospital productivity

This is the 26th report of session 2010-11 from the House of Commons Committe of Public Accounts.

Management of NHS hospital productivity
House of Commons
March 2011

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NHS Evidence QIPP Collection

The NHS Evidence QIPP Collection is a collection of examples of best practice, submitted by NHS Trusts and accredited by NICE before being published on the website. They are backed up by a number of ‘Cochrane Quality and Productivity (QP) topics’ , produced by NICE and derived from Cochrane systematic reviews that conclude that the evidence shows that a practice is harmful or ineffective and should not be used, or that there is insufficient evidence to support widespread use of a practice. NICE staff assess Cochrane QP topics against the QIPP criteria and summarise the topic, supporting evidence, likely ease of implementation, impact on productivity savings (cash and resources) and on the quality of NHS care. Trusts implementing ideas which have produced efficiencies and/or improvements in patient care are encouraged to submit details to the website using a downloadable template.

Commissioning for health improvement

"Using programme budgeting and marginal analysis to deliver quality, innovation, productivity and prevention."

Third annual population review: commissioning for health improvement
P Brambleby, A Jackson, I Stewart
Department of Health
2010

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