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Doing more with less - is QIPP the answer?
4 March 2010
Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield
This 'think tank' event will generate innovative solutions to support NHS service reforms, and debate what the 'quality, innovation, productivity and prevention' (QIPP) initiative really means.
In a climate of diminishing resources and extreme pressure, we are tasked with increasing quality and productivity, as well as improving disease prevention and management. The situation is only going to become more challenging following severe recession, which will increase pressures on public finances for years to come. Despite this, we must continue the process of reform and service improvement, deal with the adversity and maintain the pace.
To facilitate this, the NHS hierarchy has launched the QIPP initiative, which has recently been dubbed by the NHS Chief Executive, David Nicholson, as the 'main game in town'. QIPP is about the NHS working in different ways to ensure that the highest quality care is delivered. Making this a reality requires action at all levels of the system, from front-line clinicians to local providers and commissioners to the Department of Health and others at a national level.
Our event, 'Doing more with less - is QIPP the answer?', will debate how local NHS services can rise to the challenge, and how QIPP can be implemented locally to maximise benefits for patients. It gives you the opportunity to come and work in partnership with leading healthcare academics and senior members of the local/regional healthcare community on this pertinent topic. The outcomes of the event will be written up into a series of working papers and distributed to interested parties, including participants.
It is envisaged that the event will form part of an ongoing series, bringing together those with common interests to resolve local health and social care issues that can then be put into practice.
The think tanks are being developed by the University's Centre for Professional and Organisational Development and the Centre for Health and Social Care Research.
The event is free but places are limited - please click here to register, call 0114 225 5691 or e-mail c.mehta@shu.ac.uk.
