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Quality impact assessment
A gate, not a form. A scheme that has not been assessed for its effect on quality, safety, access and equity cannot be approved.
The gate
Assessing what a saving costs
Nine domains
Quality, safety, access, experience, equity, workforce, sustainability, statutory duty and clinical effectiveness.
Triggered, not optional
Schemes above a threshold, or touching a protected characteristic or a statutory duty, trigger an assessment automatically.
Refusals that mean something
Submission is refused where a mandatory domain is unassessed, and the refusal names what is missing rather than failing generically.