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
