21/02/2012

NICE publish NHS Technology Adoption Centre case study on NHS Evidence website.

A new Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) case study highlighting work undertaken by the NHS Technology Adoption Centre has been published by NICE.

The NTAC study demonstrates that the use of Oesophageal Doppler Monitoring during surgery can reduce post-operative complications and hospital stays by 3.6 days with the potential to impact 800,000 patients and generate net financial savings of over £400m.

NHS Evidence – QIPP is a collection of real examples of how health and social care staff are improving quality and productivity across the NHS and social care.

All case study examples submitted are evaluated by NICE. This evaluation is based on the degree to which the initiative meets the QIPP criteria of savings, quality, evidence and implementability, the best examples then being shown on NHS Evidence as ‘recommended’.

The NTAC example can be found here.