Birmingham and Solihull faces £16.9m QIPP shortfall

Quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings have so far yielded less than half the target amount - £4.8m against a plan of £9.7m.

The Birmingham and Solihull primary care trust cluster is only forecasting achieving savings of £32.7m against a target of £58 in 2012-13 as a whole.

QIPP schemes are progressing well in medicines management, maternity and children, and alcohol and tobacco. However savings worth £16m are yet to be identified, and end of life care another area representing “the most significant areas of delivery slippage”. The total of £16.9m amounts to 29 per cent of the £58m QIPP total.

All four PCTs are predicting deficits, principally due to QIPP shortfalls.

The cluster’s five clinical commissioning groups have each been allocated a share of the £16m, and work is under way to find extra savings.

At the end of 2012-13 the cluster is forecasting a £23m shortfall against a planned surplus of £4m – although this assumes that further QIPP savings are not identified this year.

The cluster is also expecting to overshoot its running cost budget by £7m.