Clinical Quality and Productivity Improvement - Overview

Medical Mosaic’s Quality and Productivity services are proven and innovative. We have introduced the sharing of financial risk with our clients, to work alongside our experience, capability and commitment.  We work at any scale, from specific CIP projects through divisional QiPP programmes up to Trust reorganisation and redeployment of services across communities.

• Most Trusts have completed a number of Quality, Productivity and Cost Improvement projects, starting and achieving them within the single-year timeframe. Although targets have commonly been met, projects have often underperformed and had to be augmented and replaced. Single, self-contained projects are increasingly ‘used-up’. Future Service Improvements and CIPs need longer-term preparation, are more complex and have more dependencies within and outside the Trust. The pressure to save more cost increases all the time.
• New initiatives require collaboration across whole delivery systems and pathways. Services need to engage and support each other at all levels and opportunities across boundaries need to be exploited. As well as effective project control and management, the key continues to be good clinical engagement, careful analysis and planning which deals with a wide range of needs and dependencies.   The challenge has never been greater – isolated areas of effort will no longer achieve results on the required scale. But it can be difficult for Trusts to commit to such large-scale programmes, without the capability of clinical and staff engagement and very sound project management.