The document discusses a quality premium program that rewards clinical commissioning groups for improvements in quality and outcomes. It explains that the premium is based on performance on 4 national measures and 3 local measures selected by each CCG. The national measures relate to reducing mortality, emergency admissions, patient experience, and infections. For a sample CCG, emergency admissions are a major issue, with over 56,000 total admissions last year. Selecting local measures that help achieve the national measures, like reducing emergency admissions, could maximize the CCG's quality premium payment.
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