FINANCE: Delivery of quality, innovation, prevention and productivity savings is on track across the Devon cluster, despite planned interventions not having the anticipated impact on secondary care activity.
The cluster’s final board report also said there were still unidentified QIPP savings within the primary care trust financial plans and these savings requirements had been allocated to the shadow clinical commissioning groups and “other budgets as appropiate”.
14 March 2013
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