Category: CCGs

Quality Profiles

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date September 6, 2012

By Midlands and East Quality Observatory

The practice profiles aim to enable commissioners to compare the relative quality of their providers, to enable providers to benchmark their performance against the national average, and to share with patients and the public information on the quality of the services being provided. Quality profiles have also been published for CCGs. They fit into the new commissioning architecture of the NHS, and aim to support the patient information revolution by putting this information freely and transparently into the public domain.

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CCGs Commissioning Community General Practice Library

National screening and immunisation programme

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 30, 2012

By Department of Health (August 2012)

This letter sets out the agreement between the Department of Health, Public Health England and the NHS Commissioning Board on their roles and respective accountabilities in relation to national screening and immunisation programmes after April 2013. It gives details on the future operations of the programmes and covers models of local leadership and coordination functions for screening and immunisation services.

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CCGs Commissioning Library

Commissioning intelligence

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 29, 2012

By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)

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CCGs Commissioning Library Patient Satisfaction

Securing best value for NHS patients

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 29, 2012

By Department of Health (August 2012)

This document outlines proposals for regulations to protect patients’ interests by ensuring that commissioners always deliver best value. The Department of Health are currently seeking views on these proposals and comments will be accepted until 26th October 2012.

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CCGs Children Commissioning Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

Inequalities in health outcomes and how they must be addressed

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 20, 2012

By The Children’s Commissioner (2012)

A paper by the children’s watchdog for England examined inequalities in health service outcomes for children, and made a series of recommendations for tackling them.

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CCGs Commissioning Community CVD Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease Stroke

Stroke rehabilitation in the community: commissioning for improvement

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 17, 2012

By NHS Improvement (2012)

An information resource for providers and commissioners of stroke rehabilitation and early supported discharge services in the community.

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CCGs Commissioning CVD Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease

COPD commissioning toolkit

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 17, 2012

By Department of Health (2012)

The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) commissioning toolkit is published for NHS commissioners and chief executives. It aims to make it easier to commission better outcomes for people with COPD by bringing together the clinical, financial and commercial aspects of commissioning in one place.

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CCGs Commissioning Library Local Government

Working with local government: a guide for GP Commissioners

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 17, 2012

By NHS Confederation (2012)

These briefings aim to help both GP commissioners and local authorities understand some of the structural and cultural differences between the NHS and local government.

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CCGs Children Commissioning Guidance Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

Making sense of commissioning maternity services in England: some issues for clinical commissioning groups to consider

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 17, 2012

By Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2012)

This guidance was produced in collaboration with the Royal College of Midwives and the National Childbirth Trust and aims to give CCGs advice and evidence-based information relating to some key issues to the commissioning and provision of maternity services in England.

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CCGs CSSs Library

Steering or rowing? Report from a simulation event which tested how CCGs might utilise CSSs

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 16, 2012

By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)

This report outlines learning from a scenario workshop held in May 2012. The purpose of the event was to explore the relationships between CCGs and CSSs, and to anticipate some of the likely challenges for CCGs and CSSs so that the NHS Commissioning Board Authority and partners can focus developmental activities effectively.

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