By Department of Health (2012)
The revised guidance provides an explanation of how the healthcare public health advice service from local authorities to CCG commissioners will work. It is to help Directors of Public Health and their public health teams who are to transfer from PCTs to local authorities and CCG commissioners prepare for April 2012 when the new system architecture goes live.
By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)
This guide is designed to support CCGs as they move towards establishment and authorisation, whilst reflecting the high-level principles governing the changes affecting staff across the NHS. It provides practical advice about how CCGs can approach the main HR issues that they are likely to encounter as they become established, beginning with the senior appointments process, transfers of staff and remuneration.
By Primary Care Commissioning (2012)
This toolkit supports CCGs in their journey towards authorisation, focusing on one of the major elements of healthcare expenditure – prescribing – and the essential associated medicines management and optimisation functions that underpin its safe, effective and financial management. In this toolkit each of the NPC indicators that underpin the six overarching competencies is allocated to one of the six CCG domains central to the authorisation process. Alongside each competency statement are one or more suggestions for the type of evidence the CCG should have, or be developing, to demonstrate it is meeting that competency and therefore supporting the overall aims of the domain in which it sits.
By NHS Networks (2012)
Part of the Smart Guides to Engagement series, this guide helps clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) engage well with the public to build understanding and support for change.
By NHS Networks (2012)
Part of the Smart Guides to Engagement series, this guide helps clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) understand and invest in community development (CD) to improve the health of their population. Community development is the practice of helping residents to act together to improve their conditions. It is used most in disadvantaged areas with health and other
inequalities.
By the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse
This resource provides information and links to relevant documents regarding the 8 drug strategy outcomes.
By The Children’s Improvment Board (2012)
These guidelines have been developed on behalf of the CIB in response to feedback from commissioners of children’s services. Commissioners have indicated that market facilitation is becoming an increasingly significant part of their role, and that it presents challenges in terms of skills, activity and capacity. These guidelines are intended to help commissioners of early intervention and prevention services to consider:
• the policy and practice behind the increasing emphasis on market facilitation
• the activities involved in market facilitation
• how local information and intelligence can be used to help create a market position statement and how that can help to facilitate a more constructive relationship between commissioners, providers and families.
The document focuses particularly on services concerned with early intervention and prevention for children, young people and families, but it is also applicable to all children’s and young people’s services markets.