NHSScotland Performance Targets - Efficiency

Efficiency Targets for 2011/12

  • NHS Boards to operate within their agreed revenue resource limit; operate within their capital resource limit; meet their cash requirement.
  • NHS Boards to deliver a 3% efficiency saving to reinvest in frontline services.
  • NHSScotland to reduce energy-based carbon emissions and to continue a reduction in energy consumption to contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets set in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.

Efficiency Targets for 2010/11

  • NHS Boards to deliver agreed improved efficiencies for 1st outpatient attendance DNA, non-routine inpatient average length of stay, review to new outpatient attendance ratio, same-day surgery and pre-operative stay.
  • NHS boards to operate within their agreed revenue resource limit; operate within their capital resource limit; meet their cash requirement.
  • NHS boards to meet their cash efficiency target.
  • To increase the percentage of new GP outpatient referrals into consultant led secondary care services that are managed electronically to 90% from December 2010.
  • NHSScotland to reduce energy-based carbon emissions and to continue a reduction in energy consumption to contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets set in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.
  • NHS Boards should ensure that all staff on Agenda for Change permanent contracts take part in an annual review against a KSF post outline. Information on levels of competence and identified training needs must be made available through Boards recording summary information from at least 80% of development reviews on eKSF by end of March 2011.

Efficiency Targets for 2009/10

  • NHS Boards to deliver agreed improved efficiencies for 1st outpatient attendance DNA, non-routine inpatient average length of stay, review to new outpatient attendance ratio and day case rate by March 2011.
  • NHS boards to operate within their agreed revenue resource limit; operate within their capital resource limit; meet their cash requirement.
  • NHS boards to meet their cash efficiency target.
  • To increase the percentage of new GP outpatient referrals into consultant led secondary care services that are managed electronically to 90% from December 2010.
  • NHS Scotland to reduce emissions over the period to 2011
  • Achieve universal utilisation of CHI (radiology requests)
  • NHS Boards to ensure at least 80 per cent of staff covered by Agenda for Change to have their annual Knowledge Skills Framework development reviews completed and recorded on e-KSF by March 2011.

Efficiency Targets for 2008/09

  • Universal utilisation of CHI (Community Health Index)
  • NHS Boards to achieve a sickness absence rate of 4% from 31 March 2009.
  • NHS boards to ensure that all employees covered by Agenda for Change have an agreed KSF (Knowledge and Skills Framework) personal development plan by March 2009.
  • NHS Boards to deliver agreed improved efficiencies for 1st outpatient attendance Did Not Attend, non-routine inpatient average length of stay, review to new outpatient attendance ratio and day case rate by March 2011.
  • NHS boards to operate within their agreed revenue resource limit; operate within their capital resource limit; meet their cash requirement.
  • NHS boards to meet their cash efficiency target.
  • To increase the percentage of new GP outpatient referrals into consultant led secondary care services that are triaged online for clinical priority and appropriate recipient service to 90% from December 2010.

Efficiency Targets for 2007/08

  • NHS boards to operate within their agreed revenue resource limit; operate within their capital resource limit; meet their cash requirement
  • NHS Boards to achieve time-releasing savings including an increase in consultant productivity by 1% pa over the next 3 years and a sickness absence rate of 4% by 31 March 2008.
  • Universal use of CHI

Efficiency Targets for 2006/07

  • NHS boards to operate within their revenue resource limit; operate within their capital resource limit; meet their cash requirement
  • Sickness Absence Rate: 4% by 31 March 2008.

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