Quality, Innovation, Productivity & Prevention

QIPP is all about CCGs adopting innovative approaches to healthcare in productive ways, preventing people with long-term conditions from deteriorating, while providing good quality care.

It actually stands for Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention. It is basically the way we are going to create cost-effective, high quality services. It will only succeed if practices work effectively. For this to happen they need to understand the plans well and communicate them to patients and the public.

We have six major projects, known as work streams:

Work stream	Aim
Integrated care	This ensures the health and care system is joined up and delivers the right care at the right time and in the right place.
Cancer and End of life	It is really important that people nearing the end of their lives are given the best possible services and have the choice to die at home if they wish. To improve outcomes by making sure cancers are diagnosed promptly, services are compliant with national guidance and care is delivered in the right place
Planned care	To maintain waiting times and ensure we adhere to the NHS Constitution.
Prescribing	To implement safe, quality changes in prescribing to realise a reduction in spend
Mental health and learning disability	To improve the outcomes for people with learning disabilities and mental ill-health by improving the quality of mental health and learning disability services in Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG
Children, young people and maternity	To improve patient related outcomes and reduce the number of people going into hospital when they do not need to and making sure when they do, they are as close to home as possible.