The Scottish Government

Treatment Targets for 2010/11

• To achieve agreed reductions in the rates of hospital admissions and bed days of patients with primary diagnosis of COPD, Asthma, Diabetes or CHD, from 2006/07 to 2010/11.
• Increase the level of older people with complex care needs receiving care at home.
• Each NHS Board will achieve agreed improvements in the early diagnosis and management of patients with a dementia by March 2011.
• To support shifting the balance of care, NHS Boards will achieve agreed reductions in the rates of attendance at A&E
• To reduce all staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (including MRSA) cases by 30% by 31 March 2010 and to achieve a further reduction in cases of 15% by 31 March 2011; and to reduce the rate of Clostridium difficile infections in patients aged 65 and over by at least 30% by 31 March 2011.
• By 2010/11, NHS Boards will reduce the emergency inpatient bed days for people aged 65 and over, by 10% compared with 2004/05.

Treatment Targets for 2009/10

• QIS clinical governance and risk management standards improving.
• Reduce the annual rate of increase of defined daily dose per capita of anti-depressants to zero by 2009/10, and put in place the required support framework to achieve a 10% reduction in future years.
• Reduce the number of readmissions (within one year for those that have had a psychiatric hospital admission of over 7 days by 10% by the end of December 2009).
• To achieve agreed reductions in the rates of hospital admissions and bed days of patients with primary diagnosis of COPD, Asthma, Diabetes or CHD, from 2006/7 to 2010/11.
• Improvement in the quality of healthcare experience.
• Increase the level of older people with complex care needs receiving care at home.
• Each NHS Board will achieve agreed improvements in the early diagnosis and management of patients with a dementia by March 2011.
• To support shifting the balance of care, NHS Boards will achieve agreed reductions in the rates of attendance at A&E, between 2007/08 and 2010/11.
• To reduce all staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (including MRSA) by 30% by 2010; to introduce and comply with local antimicrobial policies by 2010; and to reduce the rate of C.diff infection in hospitals by at least 30% by 2011.
• By 2010/11, NHS Boards will reduce the emergency inpatient bed days for people aged 65 and over, by 10% compared with 2004/05.

Treatment Targets for 2008/09

• By 2008-09, we will reduce the proportion of older people (aged 65+) who are admitted as an emergency inpatient 2 or more times in a single year by 20% compared with 2004/05 and reduce, by 10%, emergency inpatient bed days for people aged 65 and over by 2008.
• QIS (Quality Improvement Scotland) clinical governance and risk management standards improving.
• Reduce the annual rate of increase of defined daily dose per capita of anti-depressants to zero by 2009/10, and put in place the required support framework to achieve a 10% reduction in future years.
• Reduce the number of readmissions (within one year for those that have had a psychiatric hospital admission of over 7 days by 10% by the end of December 2009).
• To reduce all staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (including MRSA) by 30% by 2010.
• To achieve agreed reductions in the rates of hospital admissions and bed days of patients with primary diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma, Diabetes or Coronary Heart Disease, from 2006/7 to 2010/11.
• Improvement in the quality of healthcare experience.
• Increase the level of older people with complex care needs receiving care at home.
• Each NHS Board will achieve agreed improvements in the early diagnosis and management of patients with a dementia by March 2011.