3rd National Annual QIPP Symposium, 10 November 2011

The 3rd annual national QIPP symposium, Improving Outcomes through Innovative Partnerships, Quality, Productivity, and Value will cover:

• Support from GP Commissioners


• Strengthened public and patient, and local authority engagement


• Clarity on the clinical evidence base


• Consistency with current and prospective patient choice


• QIPP, Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention


• Secondary and Primary Care Integration


• Payment Tariffs and Care Pathway Development


• Transition how, when what, with whom

Date: 10 November 2011
Venue: BT Convention Centre, Liverpool



For full details and registration, visit the Symposium website or download the programme (PDF, 2.12 MB)

The safer management of controlled drugs - Annual report 2010

Annual report published in August 2011 which makes recommendations on how chief executives and accountable officers could better aid the safer management of controlled drugs.

The safer management of controlled drugs - Annual report 2010 
Care Quality Commission
August 2011

Download the full report here (PDF, 622KB) or the summary here.

NICE COPD quality standard

This NICE quality standard defines clinical best practice for assessment, diagnosis and clinical management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adults. It provides specific, concise quality statements, measures and audience descriptors to provide patients and the public, health and social care professionals, commissioners and service providers with definitions of high-quality care. It is based on current NICE guidance and is consistent with the Outcomes Strategy for the areas it covers.

COPD: quality standard
NICE
28 July 2011

Download the full text here (PDF, 249 KB)

Making Shared Decision-making a Reality

Report published by the King's Fund, clarifying the concept of shared decision-making and proposing actions needed to make the aspiration a reality.

Making Shared Decision-making a Reality: No Decision About Me, Without Me
Angela Coulter, Alf Collins
King's Fund
July 2011

Download the full text here (PDF, 790 KB)

Getting out of hospital? The evidence for shifting acute inpatient and day case services from hospitals into the community

This report examines and updates the review of evidence of underpinning the policy drive to transfer acute inpatient and day-case services from hospitals into the community and the effectiveness of this to improve quality of care and save money.

Getting out of hospital?
The Health Foundation
June 2011

Download the full text here (PDF).

Do clinical guidelines reduce clinician dependent costs?

Freely available journal article reviewing and summarising recent evidence, relevant to both developed and developing countries on whether evidence based clinical guidelines can change hospitals variable costs which are clinician dependent, and the degree of financial savings achieved at hospital level.

Do clinical guidelines reduce clinician dependent costs?
George Kosimbei , Kara Hanson  and Mike English
Health Research Policy and Systems 2011, 9:24doi:10.1186/1478-4505-9-24

Download the full article here.

The Health and Social Care Bill: where next?

Briefing from the Nuffield Trust providing the Nuffield Trust response to the Government’s NHS ‘listening exercise’, in which Ministers will consider options for reform before the Health and Social Care Bill returns to Parliament.


The Health and Social Care Bill: where next?
Nuffield Trust
May 2011

View summary, listen to briefing and download documentation from the Nuffield Trust website.