Making Every Contact Count Commissioning Lynda Bradford Head
Making Every Contact Count Commissioning Lynda Bradford Head of Health Improvement NHS Suffolk/Suffolk County Council & Dr Lola Abudu NHS Midlands and East
• NHS Suffolk’s experience • Commissioning Tools – CQUINs and Contracts • Supported by Soft wiring – Professional good practice, training, forums to share good practice, meetings with providers
Commissioning Tools CQUINs • First year, pump priming • What was requested in 2012/13? • What was done? Contracts • To embed practice • How to sustain change?
MECC CQUINs 2012/13 • • Two acute trusts (£ 155 K) Mental health trust (£ 143. 6 K) Community trust (£ 99. 9 K) Healthy Lifestyle Provider (£ 22. 5 K) Total investment in CQUIN £ 421 K
Outcomes from MECC by Q 3 • • • People trained F 2 F - 71 People trained online - 38 Stop Smoking referrals - 1513 Alcohol Service referrals - 62 Adult Weight Management referrals – 43 In total 1727 recorded outcomes to date
Have the CQUINS been cost effective? • Outlay to date £ 315, 750 • People trained 109 • Number of referrals to Healthy Lifestyle Services 1618 • A lot of money for referrals and training (cost per outcome to date £ 183) • Ongoing outcomes and for how long?
What will be left behind? • • • Referral routes – electronic or paper Permanent change in staff attitude Feedback route from lifestyle providers Contract changes ongoing Full outcome not clear until end of Q 4
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