18 NEWS The Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) Evidence Collection The QIPP c ollec tion on NHS Evidence (www.evidence.nhs.uk/QIPP) provides quality-assured, real life examples of how things can be done differently in health and social care, whilst still providing optimal standards of care to patients. This includes evidencebased examples that have been shown to improve quality and save money (the QIPP Evidence Collection), plus areas of potential disinvestment from NICE guidance and Cochrane reviews.
If you have good examples that have been shown to or have the potential to work, and which can help the NHS nationally meet its challenge, NICE want to hear from you. If you have already submitted a case study, please consider whether you have any new examples to provide.
New approved information standard The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care (ISB) approved two new information standard at its meeting on the 26th September. The first standard is ISB 1570 HIV and Aids Reporting System (HARS). More information about it can be found on the ISB website: http://www.isb.nhs.uk/documents/isb-1570/amd-1642010/index_html The second is ISB 0134 Surveillance of Healthcare Associated Infections (Amd 7/2012 Version 2). Again more information about this standard can be found on the ISB website: http://www.isb.nhs.uk/documents/isb-0134/amd-7-2012/ index_html Digital Innovation Fund
For your QIPP initiative to be considered for inclusion on NHS Evidence, you will need to complete an online form which you can find at http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/QIPP together with the QIPP Submission User Guide outlining what types of supporting information the assessment team is looking for. Send your completed submission to NHSevidenceqipp@nice.org.uk. Once your submission has been processed, a member of the assessment team will contact you. Protecting people, promoting health A new report about the roles of public health and health care services in reducing the levels of violence across the country has been released by the North West Public Health Observatory. The report details the extent and nature of the violence, its impact on short and long term health and wellbeing, education and antisocial behaviour, risk and protective factors for involvement in violence, the range of evidence based approaches for dealing with violence and related national policy and programmes. The report along side other publications for the NWPHO is available from the thier website: www.nwpho.org.uk
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The Department of Health has set up a fund from which local NHS organisations could now be awarded funding to develop new digital services that improve patient care ,including information sharing more easily across the NHS. More information can be found on their website: http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/08/information-sharingchallenge/
Information Centre It is understood that the Health & Social Care Information Centre is to be replaced with a new Health & Social Care Information Centre. The new organisation will operate as an “arm’s length” body (similar to NICE) and will have a wider remit taking on the remaining functions of NHS Connecting for Health. Replacement of NHSmail The NHSmail 2 project has been established to look at options for when the current NHSmail (national e-mail system) contract ceases. Despite the name of the project, no assumptions have yet been made about the solution. Information will be published as it becomes available at:http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/ systemsandservices/nhsmail/nhsmail2.
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