Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) is the new programme for improving quality and productivity across the NHS and social care, and for delivering £20 billion savings in the NHS by 2015.
It forms the basis on which health and local authorities will redesign services with the purpose of improving quality and efficiency.
This is prompting greater integration of services between health and social care. Savings made from adopting more efficient ways of working are earmarked for reinvestment in patient care.
A number of workstreams have been set up by the DH to support the new approach; some focus on commissioning care, others on the way staff are managed and organisations are run.
QIPP has been introduced in response to the need to make savings due to growing demands put on health and social care by an ageing population. Its aim is to ensure that each pound spent is used to bring maximum benefit and quality of care to patients.
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