Quality Premium: 2015/16 guidance for CCGs

Quality Premium: 2015/16 guidance for CCGs (updated)
NHS England 27 April 2015

• The quality premium paid to CCGs in 2016/17 – to reflect the quality of the health services commissioned by them in 2015/16 – will be based on the following measures that cover a combination of national and local priorities. 
• These are:
• reducing potential years of lives lost through causes considered amenable to healthcare (10 per cent of quality premium); 
• urgent and emergency care-a menu of measures for CCGs to choose from locally in conjunction with their relevant Health and Wellbeing Board(s) and local NHS England team. (30 per cent of the quality premium.) 
• mental health - a menu of measures for CCGs to choose from locally in conjunction with their relevant Health and Wellbeing Board(s) and local NHS England team. (30 per cent of the quality premium.) 
• improving antibiotic prescribing in primary and secondary care (10 per cent of quality premium); 
• two local measures which should be based on local priorities such as those identified in joint health and wellbeing strategies (20 per cent of quality premium-10 per cent for each measure).

Baseline emergency admissions data to support Quality Premium

Quality Premium Indicator 2: Baseline composite emergency admissions dataNHS England, May 2014

• 2012/13 baseline data for the composite avoidable emergency admissions Quality Premium measure (updated March 2014).
• The table includes Count of avoidable emergency admissions 2012/13 and registered population data.
• See all documents relating to Quality Premium here

Quality Premium reporting template

Quality Premium 2013/14: assessment of achievement of local measures

• This template is for completion by CCGs and area teams to assess achievement of Quality Premium local measures and to advise on any relevant serious quality failure issues. 

Quality Premium guidance 2014/15

Quality Premium guidance 2014/15
NHS England 13 March 2014

• This guidance sets out the measures for 2014/15 and the levels of improvement for CCGs to achieve in order to qualify for the quality premium. It includes the actions to be taken by CCGs with Health and Wellbeing Boards and NHS England area teams to agree local measures and levels of improvement in preparation for 2014/15.
• A revised version of the guidance has been issued to reflect an amendment to the patient experience measure.
• All Quality Premium guidance available here. 

Quality Premium: 2014/15 guidance for CCGs

Quality Premium: 2014/15 guidance for CCGs
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).

Quality Premium update

Quality Premium: 2013/14 guidance for CCGs Final
NHS Commissioning Board, March 2013

• Guidance supersedes that published in December 2012
• The ‘quality premium’ is intended to reward CCGs for improvements in the quality of the services that they commission and for associated improvements in health outcomes and reducing inequalities.
• The four national measures, all of which are based on measures in the NHS Outcomes Framework, are: 
• reducing potential years of lives lost through amenable mortality 
• reducing avoidable emergency admissions
• ensuring roll-out of the Friends and Family Test and improving 
• patient experience of hospital services
• preventing healthcare associated infections
  

Everyone Counts

Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2013/14 

NHS Commissioning Board, 19 December 2012 (Additional guidance has been added after this date.)

• Guidance to support the incentives and levers that will be used to improve services from April 2013 and other documents including 
• Supporting planning 2013/14 for CCGs including "plan on a page" template and guidance
• Everyone counts: planning for patients 2013/14 – Technical definitions
• CCGs: Planning template for 2013/14
• Clinical commissioning group and provider objectives for reduction in clostridium difficile: 2013/14
• Supporting information:
• NHS allocations for 2013/14
• ‘Support packs’ for CCGs and LAs
• Who pays? Determining responsibility for payments to providers - updated Sept 2013
• Better data, informed commissioning, driving improved outcomes: clinical data sets
• CCG outcomes indicator set
• Quality premium 2013/14 – Guidance for CCGs  updated -
• Draft NHS standard contract
• Commissioning for quality and innovation (CQUIN) – 2013/14 draft guidance
• Read the NHS Confederation briefing.
• Read the NHS Clinical Commissioning briefing