By Improving Health & Lives: Learning Disabilities Observatory (2012)
The guide is intended to help CCGs commission high quality, cost effective general and specialist health services for people with learning disabilities; jointly commission services for people who challenge services and those with complex needs; and work with health and wellbeing boards, local authorities and others to address the social factors which affect the health of people with learning disabilities.
By The Royal College of General Practitioners (October 2012)
This report surveyed sessional GPs and those involved in emerging CCGs in order to find how engaged sessional GPs are with commissioning and to find examples of best practice, models of inclusion, engagement and leadership including the necessary conditions for their success, along with any barriers preventing these.
By NHS Confederation (2012)
This briefing summarises the main findings of a Department of Health commissioned report on the current landscape for mental health service provision in England. It aims to provide CCGs with a clearer understanding of the way in which the market currently operates in the mental health sector, and will assist in the development of effective commissioning arrangements.
By Right Care (September 2012)
This case study from West Cheshire PCT and CCGs demonstrates the use of Right Care principles to identify service improvements that can generate savings for re-investment, service quality, and outcomes improvements. It combines the use of spend and outcome tools, analysis of variation, and programme budgeting with service reviews and business process engineering techniques to deliver reform, innovation and efficiency proposals. £7 million was generated across three service areas in one wave of service reviews, as part of a successful £15m QIPP programme. The approach has already been replicated in other CCGs in the region and has contributed to successful CCG authorisation panel reviews.
By NHS Alliance (October 2012)
This report is designed to help commissioners implement effective integrated urgent care strategies in their local areas.
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By NICE (2012)
NICE commissioning guides are topic-specific, web-based resources.
Each commissioning guide comprises a series of text-based web pages that signpost and provide topic-specific information on key clinical and service-related issues to consider during the commissioning process. Each guide contains a commissioning and benchmarking tool, which is a resource that can be used to estimate and inform the level of service needed locally as well as the cost of local commissioning decisions.
By East and South East England Specialist Pharmacy Services (September 2012)
Optimising medicines use in care pathways using pharmacy support and the Medicines in Commissioning Toolkit are two key interlinked resources that have been revised and updated to support commissioners to help ensure care pathways which involve medicines deliver improved patient outcomes, are safe, use clinical and cost effective treatment options, offer patient choice and the best patient experience
The resources emphasise the delivery of QIPP and the NHS Outcomes Framework, and, above all, demonstrate how to maximise patient outcomes through medicines optimisation.
Both will also be useful to service providers, helping them to identify and address medicines-related issues in service specifications and comply with Care Quality Commission (CQC) Outcome 9 (Medicines Management).
In the current, rapidly changing, NHS environment these documents will provide a valuable starting point for local discussions between pharmacists and commissioners about the benefits and practicalities of commissioning medicines management support and appropriate pharmaceutical care for patients prescribed.
by ACEVO (2012)
This guide calls for a revolution in NHS and community links. It sets out practical examples to support closer working between clinical commissioners and third sector organisations. It explores three key areas: QIPP, patient and public involvement and collaborative commissioning.
By The Nuffield Trust (September 2012)
The authors found that clinical commissioning groups may need to form wider networks to secure the active engagement of GPs. Giving GPs genuine (not just on paper) independence is critical and public health does not currently appear to be a natural priority for GP groups, so time and support will be needed to allow them to develop in this area of their work.
By Save the Children (September 2012)
The report finds that parents choose to go hungry in order to feed their children, missing regular hot meals, unable to afford warm coats and new shoes and suffering enormous emotional strain. The charity highlights children’s – as well as parents’ – experiences living in recession-hit Britain and the extent to which poverty is blighting young lives. 1 in 8 of the poorest children in the UK go without at least 1 hot meal a day, and 1 in 10 of the UK’s poorest parents have cut back on food for them to make sure their children have enough to eat, the report reveals.