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<p>The national Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) scheme for 2014-15
includes national indicators relating to the NHS Safety Thermometer, the Friends and
Family Test (FFT), diagnosis and onward referral of patients with dementia or delirium,
and assessment of physical health risk factors and provision of appropriate interventions
for mental health inpatients. The FFT indicator incentivises providers to implement
the FFT scheme and to achieve good response rates; the dementia indicator requires
providers to undertake a carer survey; and the mental health indicator involves a
specific process of national clinical audit, facilitated by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>CQUIN applies to all providers who operate under the NHS Standard
Contract. The Contract, which is used for all providers of National Health Service-funded
care other than primary care, already includes as core standards for all providers
requirements to:</p><p> </p><p>- put in place an ongoing proportionate programme of
clinical audit;</p><p> </p><p>- participate in relevant national clinical audits under
the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme; and</p><p> </p><p>- undertake
patient, carer and staff surveys, including FFT.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS
England is reviewing both CQUIN and the NHS Standard Contract and will be publishing
updated versions of both for 2015-16 shortly.</p><p> </p>
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