QIPP

NHIS Newsletter: 05/10/2009

In a rather low-key manner at the end of August, the Department of Health initiated a strategic approach to supporting Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) in the NHS. This will not involve a single, top-down strategy but the eight emerging priorities for DH are to:

· Develop an overall QIPP narrative;

· Support and assure regional QIPP delivery;

· Link regional QIPP delivery programmes for effective piloting, learning and roll-out;

· Run national programmes for those things that can only be done nationally;

· Deliver a massive engagement programme;

· Create capacity to support change;

· Stimulate innovation in key QIPP areas;

· Start a programme to explore areas for fundamental redesign.

A range of key national resources will be focused on supporting QIPP. The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement will have a particularly important role in developing the evidence base and delivering quality and productivity improvement programmes. This does not represent a new vision or policy agenda. It is simply a framework through which the ten-year vision of the Next Stage Review as set out in High Quality Care for All, >From Evidence to Excellence, and the five county clinical visions, will be delivered within the context of the new economic climate and the financial constraints beyond 2011.