By Policy Research Unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System (PRUComm) (December 2012)
This interim report presents findings from research into how commissioners negotiate, specify, monitor, and manage contractual mechanisms to improve services and allocate financial risk in their local health economies, looking at both acute services and community health care.
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By NHS Commissioning Board (January 2013)
This document describes the processes that will be used to support planning for the next financial year. It aims to support the NHS Commissioning Board’s national, regional and area teams to ensure that every plan is as strong as it can be, by designing an approach that achieves national consistency and improves quality and equity of access to services. This should be in the context of local priorities and in conjunction with CCGs and local health and wellbeing boards.
By NHS Commissioning Board (Januray 2013)
This final report from the National Quality Board sets out how quality will be maintained and improved in the new health system. It focuses predominantly on how the new system should prevent, identify and respond to serious failures in quality.
By National Council for Palliative Care et al. (2012)
This guidance aims to provide commissioners with the key information that they need to help them commission specialist palliative care, as a specific component of the whole spectrum of palliative and end of life care service provision.
By National Drug Evidence Centre, University of Manchester (2012)
This report, commissioned by the Department of Health, looks at a pilot project which took a new approach to commissioning and delivering drug and alcohol misuse treatment.
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By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)
These information packs set out key data at local authority and CCG level to inform the local position on outcomes. The local authority level packs present high level comparative information on the NHS, the adult social care and the public health frameworks. The CCG level packs provide a more detailed analysis of NHS outcomes and other relevant indicators.
By The Nuffield Trust (2012)
This report highlights the funding challenges facing the NHS and social care system in England over the next decade. It focuses on the portion of the total NHS budget in England that is currently spent by PCTs on commissioning services for the population of England, which makes up around 80% of the total budget for the NHS in England. It also examines funding pressures on social care services, and examines options for achieving the current QIPP challenge of £20 billion in productivity savings by 2014/15.
By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)
This operating model sets out how a single, national system will ensure patients are offered consistent, high quality services across the country. Alongside the specialised intentions document, it signposts a clear move away from regional commissioning to a single national approach to both commissioning and contracting.
By Policy Research Unit (September 2012)
This report presents the findings from a study of developing Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England. It explores the early experiences of emerging CCGs as they set themselves up as ‘pathfinders’ and moved towards authorisation, investigating the factors that had affected their development and looking at lessons for the future. The specific research questions addressed in this report cover: the experiences of pathfinder CCGs over the past year; factors which have affected progress and development; and approaches taken to being a membership organisation, developing external relationships, and commissioning and contracting.
By Mental Health Network NHS Confederation (November 2012)
This paper reports findings from a study which found that people with autism or learning disabilities can suffer double the amount of setbacks if they need mental health support. It calls on providers and commissioners of mental health services to better accommodate the mental health needs of people with autism or learning disabilities.