Quality in a Cold Climate
The NHS is facing the biggest financial challenge in its history. Our Quality in a Cold Climate project aimed to support the NHS in delivering productivity improvements required to meet this challenge.
Findings
Project reports and briefings
This project has produced a number of papers, briefings and responses.
- Reconfiguring hospital services
- Mental health and the productivity challenge: improving quality and value for money
- Avoiding hospital admissions: what does the research evidence say?
- Improving NHS productivity: more with the same not more of the same
- Referral management: lessons for success
- Approaches to demand management: commissioning in a cold climate
- Avoiding hospital admissions: lessons from evidence and experience
- Windmill 2009: NHS response to the financial storm
- How cold will it be? Prospects for NHS funding 2011-17
About the project
Find out why the NHS is facing such a challenge, how this programme aims to help and about the project team.
Related audio/video
Audio and video related to this project
Mental health and the productivity challenge
We hear from Chris Naylor, project lead, and a number of the case studies featured in the final report from our publication on mental health and the productivity challenge.
Improving NHS productivity
Lord Howe, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Quality, outlines the productivity challenges facing the NHS.
Jim Easton, Director for Improvement and Efficiency, Department of Health, discusses how the QIPP health agenda has been working so far and how quality of care can be improved whilst implementing substantial efficiency savings.
John Appleby, Chief Economist at The King's Fund, looks at why we need to improve NHS productivity and by how much at our Improving NHS productivity conference.
Unwarranted variations
- Jack Wennberg on unwarranted variations in medical practice
- Al Mulley on reducing unwarranted variations
We get an American perspective on unwarranted variations in care from Jack Wennberg and Al Mulley. How can we compare this to variations in NHS care in England?
