High quality care for all : NHS Next Stage Review final report / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty, June 2008.

  • Great Britain. Department of Health
Date:
2008
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Credit: High quality care for all : NHS Next Stage Review final report / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty, June 2008. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    e Making funding for hospitals that treat NHS patients reflect the quality of care that patients receive. For the first time, patients’ own assessments of the success of their treatment and the quality of their experiences will have a direct impact on the way hospitals are funded. For senior doctors, the current Clinical Excellence Awards Scheme will be strengthened, to reinforce quality improvement. New awards, and the renewal of existing awards, will become more conditional on clinical activity and quality indicators; and the Scheme will encourage and support clinical leadership of service delivery and innovation. Easy access for NHS staff to information about high quality care. All NHS staff will have access to a new NHS Evidence service where they will be able to get, through a single web-based portal, authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice. Measures to ensure continuous improvement in the quality of primary and community care. We have just completed our consultation on proposals to bring all GP practices and dental practices within the scope of the new health and adult social care regulator, the Care Quality Commission.’ We will introduce a new Strategy for developing the Quality and Outcomes Framework which will include an independent and 5 Department of Health, The future regulation of health and adult social in England, 25 March 2008. Summary letter transparent process for developing and reviewing indicators. We will support practice accreditation schemes, like that of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Developing new best practice tariffs focused on areas for improvement. These will pay for best practice rather than average cost, meaning NHS organisations will need to improve to keep up. We will strengthen the involvement of clinicians in decision making at every level of the NHS. As this Review has shown, change Is most likely to be effective If it is led by clinicians. We will do this by ensuring that: e Medical directors and quality boards feature at regional and national level. These will complement the arrangements at PCT level that are developing as part of the World Class Commissioning programme. Strategic plans for delivering the visions will be published later this year by every primary care trust. Change will be based on the five principles | set out earlier this year in Leading Local Change.® e There is clear local support for quality improvement. A new ‘Quality Observatory’ will be established in every NHS region to inform local quality improvement efforts. 6 NHS Next Stage Review: Leading Local Change, Department of Health, May 2008.