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Paper PLLR PCT Cluster Integrated Board Meeting8 September 2011NHS LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY & RUTLAND CLUSTERINTEGRATED BOARD MEETING8 SEPTEMBER 2011QUALITY INNOVATION PRODUCTIVITY & PREVENTION PROGRAMME 2011/12PROGRESS REPORTIntroduction1 The purpose of this paper is to provide an update on the progress of the fiveQIPP priority work streams against agreed plans following the last report tothe Trust Board in May 2011. Where known financial implications and savingspotential/avoided costs of the work streams have been included.Governance2 The benefit delivery of the five key work streams is reported to the Trust Boardon a quarterly basis.3 Progress of all QIPP schemes is monitored on a monthly basis by the DeliveryGroup. The scope of the Delivery Group also includes: productivity andsavings schemes, Transformation fund proposals, contract performance,workforce and SOP developments. The Delivery Group is chaired by theDirector of Finance and reports to the Performance Transition ManagementTeam.4 The Delivery Group will co-ordinate the 2012/13 QIPP plans throughengagement with the CCG’s.LLR Formulary and Prescribing Incentive Schemes5 The budgetary responsibility for prescribing has been devolved to the CCG’sand the LLR Formulary project has been combined with Prescribing IncentiveSchemes (PIS) to encourage practices to concentrate their actions upon theactivities that will deliver the greatest savings and improvements in quality.6 £5.306m has been removed from CCG prescribing operational budgets andperformance against this position is £649.3k under spent as at month 4 asshown in the table below.Consortium and PracticePrescribingYTD as at M4Budget (£) Spend (£) Variance (£)City 17,318,586 17,318,586 0ELR 15,383,537 14,965,137 (418,400)West 17,567,596 17,336,676 (230,920)Total 50,269,719 49,620,399 (649,320)1