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A guide to commissioning cardiac surgical services The commissioning of world class health services will require an agreement between the purchasers and providers of cardiac surgical services to agree both: • The quantity of services to be provided. • The quality of care to be delivered. The formal introduction of measurement for quality through initiatives such as IQIs and the CQUIN programme (as a sub set of the quality framework) help to remove the often subjective nature of ‘quality’ by defining metrics through consultation with a wide range of stakeholders, service users, providers. purchasers and the public. This together with a levelling up of financial risk across health economies, changes in tariff and the introduction of the revised Performance Framework will provide the environment for quality improvement to flourish. In respect to this, Cardiac (and Stroke) Networks, working with clinical teams, managers commissioners, patients and carers across the entire patient pathway continue to be uniquely placed to support and drive this agenda. The networks ability to work impartially and objectively across organisational and departmental boundaries has been key to delivering the requirements of the Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework (and other key cardiac strategies), with the case studies and achievements in this document providing a mere snap shot of the added value that these organisations bring. NHS Performance Framework 2010/11 48 www.improvement.nhs.uk/heart
A guide to commissioning cardiac surgical services Supporting Information NHS Improvement and specifically the Heart Improvement Programme have collated a bank of useful resources aimed at providing local teams with solutions to problems to support local improvement work. The following pages highlight some of these practical tools, products, web links and references to help you in your quality improvement work. For further information go to: www.improvement.nhs.uk/heart www.improvement.nhs.uk/heart 49
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