QIPP

To meet increasing demand upon mental health services and to absorb increasing costs, we need to concentrate upon improving early access to preventative services in the community, improving productivity within primary and secondary care services, while focusing relentlessly on clinical quality. The NHS needs to identify £15-£20 billion of efficiency savings by the end of 2013/14 that can be reinvested in the service to continue to deliver year on year quality improvements. Services promoting mental health and well being need to support innovation and develop pathways that improve effectiveness and enhance people's experience as well as providing value for money. In achieving these aims, the NHS will focus upon four core components: Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention. The government's Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS, sets out their commitment to ensuring that QIPP supports the NHS to make efficiency savings which can be reinvested back into the service to continually improve quality of care.

To view the YHIP service specifications and protocols library go to www.yhip.org.uk/servicespec.