title: QIPP: cutting budgets or working smarter?
abstract: The Department of Health's response to the national budget deficit is to ensure that the provision of NHS services is guided by four fundamental 'QIPP' principles: Quality, Innovation, Prevention, and Productivity. This agenda will govern all aspects of the National Health Service's (NHS') health care provision for the foreseeable future. NHS dental services will, like all other NHS services, need to make a contribution to the QIPP agenda. The purpose of this paper is to outline the implications for NHS dentistry.
authors.affiliation: Dental Public Health, University of Manchester, Coupland III, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. paul.brocklehurst@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brocklehurst
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tickle
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D032982:Contracts; D017046:Cost Savings; D017047:Cost Sharing; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D032022:Delegation, Professional; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D003752:Dental Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005792:General Practice, Dental / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011313:Preventive Dentistry / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013218:State Dentistry / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom