By NHS Commissioning Board (August 2012)
The NHS Commissioning Board has published ‘A framework for collaborative commissioning between CCGs’. The framework draws together relevant information that proposed CCGs might consider and sets out steps that many will want to take in their preparation for authorisation and the 2013/14 contracting round. In some cases, a large number of CCGs might commission a single service that is organised across a large geographical area (such as ambulance services) or in other cases, a group of CCGs who are geographical neighbours may wish to work together on a contract with a single provider to which the majority of their patients flow.