Performance indicators will help to identify and share best practice
Figures for trust-by-trust performance across a number of key efficiency and productivity indicators are published this week by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
The “Better care, better value” indicators highlight how
reducing inpatient stays, minimising emergency admissions and reducing
staff turnover could free resources worth £2.2bn and improve patient
care.
Increasing low-cost statin prescribing is one of the indicators. The
institute predicts that if every primary care trust achieved a 69 per
cent rate of low-cost statin prescribing (the rate achieved by the top
25 per cent of trusts) a saving of £84.7m would be made in one
year. Recommendations are made on how to increase low-cost statin prescribing,
such as conducting prescribing audits and analysing prescribing data.
It is hoped that the indicators will help PCTs and acute hospitals to
identify where productivity or efficiency might be improved in four key
areas: finance, clinical productivity, workforce, and prescribing and
procurement. The figures will be published quarterly.
The institute was established in 2005 to improve health outcomes and
raise the quality of delivery in the NHS by accelerating the uptake of
proven innovation and improvements in delivery models, medical products
and devices, and health care leadership.
Further details are available
at the NHS
better care, better value website. |
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