NHS England 23 December 2013
- The ‘quality premium’ is intended to reward clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) for improvements in the quality of the services that they commission and for associated improvements in health outcomes and reducing inequalities.
- The quality premium paid to CCGs in 2015/16 – to reflect the quality of the health services commissioned by them in 2014/15 – will be based on six measures that cover a combination of national and local priorities. These are:
- reducing potential years of lives lost through causes considered amenable to healthcare and addressing locally agreed priorities for reducing premature mortality (15 per cent of quality premium);
- improving access to psychological therapies (15 per cent of quality premium);
- reducing avoidable emergency admissions (25 per cent of quality premium);
- addressing issues identified in the 2013/14 Friends and Family Test (FFT), supporting roll out of FFT in 2014/15 and showing improvement in a locally selected patient experience indicator (15 per cent of quality premium);
- improving the reporting of medication-related safety incidents based on a locally selected measure (15 per cent of quality premium);
- a further local measure that should be based on local priorities such as those identified in joint health and wellbeing strategies (15 per cent of quality premium).
