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Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) payment framework
The CQUIN payment framework enables commissioners to reward excellence, by linking a proportion of English healthcare providers' income to the achievement of local quality improvement goals. Since the first year of the CQUIN framework (2009/10), many CQUIN schemes have been developed and agreed. This is a developmental process for everyone and you are encouraged to share your schemes (and any supporting information on the process you used) to meet the requirement for transparency and support improvement in schemes over time.
Department of Health guidance
- Guidance on the CQUIN payment framework
- NHS Operating Framework
- The NHS Standard Contracts and supporting guidance
- 2012/13 schemes
- 2011/12 schemes
- 2010/11 schemes Summary of Indicators
- 2009/10 schemes Summary of Indicators
NHS London CQUINs approach and focus on outcome domains (102.00 KB) - NHS London MH CQUIN 12/13 Implementation Guidance V1 April (1.40 MB)
- Exemplar CQUIN 2012/13 - Patient led assessments of the care environment (53.00 KB)
- Exemplar CQUIN - Government buying standards for food and catering (39.00 KB)
- Information on the DH Patient Experience CQUIN Tool (Feb 2012) (52.00 KB)
- Standard template for CQUIN schemes 2011/12
- Part-populated standard template for national goals 2011/12
- Exemplar CQUIN goals 2010/11
- Illustrative example CQUIN schemes 2010/11 acute and mental health
- Standard template for CQUIN schemes 2010/11
- "What makes a really good CQUIN scheme" (July 2009)
- Quality incentive schemes that pre-date the CQUIN framework
- Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) national workstreams: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/Qualityandproductivity/index.htm
- NHS Evidence – Quality and Productivity:
www.evidence.nhs.uk/qualityandproductivity - Indicators for Quality Improvement:
www.ic.nhs.uk/mqi - NICE Quality Standards:
http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qualitystandards/qualitystandards.jsp - Department of Health mailbox for queries on the NHS Standard Contracts:
contractshelp@dh.gsi.gov.uk
The NHS Institute closes on 31 March 2013. A decision has not yet been made on where CQUIN schemes to support the 14/15 planning round will be made available. The NHS Commissioning Board will confirm this in due course. In the meantime, for any urgent queries, please contact nhscb.contractshelp@nhs.net.
We are not held responsible or liable for this published information on behalf of the Department of Health. For any questions and queries relating to this information please your Strategic Health Authority lead.
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