By NHS England (2014)
NHS England is committed to giving CCGs and area teams practical support in gathering data, evidence and tools to help them transform the way care is delivered for their patients and populations.
Working with Public Health England and NHS Right Care, NHS England is providing a suite of materials to support effective ‘commissioning for value’. This includes a range of comprehensive data packs and online tools.
The first packs – released in October 2013 – clearly showed CCGs and area teams ‘where to look’ as a first stage to identify real opportunities to improve outcomes and increase value for local populations.
The ‘Pathways on a Page’ packs – published in November 2014 – provide in depth data for 13 patient conditions, within those programmes that were most commonly identified as offering the greatest potential improvements in the first pack.
The use of this localised information as part of the annual planning cycle is encouraged. It will support discussions about prioritising areas for change and utilising resources, and will help local leaders make improvements in healthcare quality, outcomes and efficiency.
The information in the packs will be of particular interest to CCG clinical and management leads with responsibility for finance, performance, improvement and health outcomes; to area team leads; and to commissioning support teams who are helping CCGs with this work. A range of additional free support to accompany the data is set out within each pack.