The Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) payment framework was introduced in 2009 to make a proportion of providers’ income conditional on demonstrating improvements in quality and innovation in specified areas of care.
The framework helps make quality part of the commissioner-provider discussion everywhere. The framework has been designed based on feedback from partners in the NHS.
CQUIN targets enable organisations to look at the quality of services delivered and ensure that the quality of the services continues to improve. CQUIN targets are set externally by the Strategic Health Authority (SHA) and by our commissioners. They are performance managed against to ensure achievement and development.
2012/13 CQUIN Quality Improvement Objectives
Ashton Leigh & Wigan Division
1 National CQUIN
- NHS Safety Thermometer
3 Regional CQUIN
- Dementia (2 indicators)
- Harm Free Care (16 indicators)
- Public Health – health Inequalities (10 indicators)
7 Local CQUIN
- Healthy Weight
- Dementia
- Data Quality
- Making Every Contact Count
- Alcohol
- Increasing number of referrals to children’s services
- Medicines management formulary
Halton & St Helens Division
1 National CQUIN
- NHS Safety Thermometer
5 Local CQUIN
- Patient experience
- Communication
- Medicines Management
- Single wound care formulary
- Prescribing assurance
- Patient Group Directions
- representative on MMMB - Prevention
- Dementia
- Atrial Fibrillation - Energise for Excellence (E4E)
Trafford Division
1 National CQUIN
- NHS Safety Thermometer
4 Regional CQUIN
- Dementia (2 indicators)
- Harm Free Care (15 indicators)
- Public Health/health inequalities (6 indicators)
5 Local CQUIN
- Patient experience
- Transfer of Care
- Patient Centred Care – (2 indicators)
- End of Life
- Releasing Time to Care
- Trafford Children and Young People Service (CYPS)
1 Regional CQUIN
- Public Health – health inequalities (2 indicators)
3 Local CQUIN
- Patient experience
- CYPS Data Quality
- Safeguarding children /embedding lessons learnt
Warrington Division
1 National CQUIN
- NHS Safety Thermometer
6 Local CQUIN
- Emotional Health and Well-being support for young people with ASD
- Making Every Contact Count
- Communication skills for Secondary schools students with language disorders or social skills disorders
- Sensory integration for Autism Paediatric OT
- Extension of scope of Community IV Therapy services
- Care Giver Strain Index
- Expansion of the Parkinson’s Nurse role to include support for other neurological conditions
Dental Division – CQUIN not applicable to the dental division
2011/12
The Trafford and Halton & St. Helens Divisions have achieved their CQUIN Schemes for the 2011/12 financial year.
The Warrington Division has successfully completed one of their CQUIN Schemes, with the remaining two on line to submit within the commissioner requests.
The Ashton, Leigh and Wigan Division are due to report against quarter 4 in June 2012, due to an accepted lag in data availability. At the end of quarter 3 all targets bar one where assessed as fully compliant, the remaining requirement was partially compliant.
Bridgewater Dental Services are not subject to the CQUIN schemes.
You can see our Accident and Emergency Department Clinical Quality Indicator on this link.
