GPC PBC Summariy of ‘Commissioning Framework for Health And Well-Being’

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The Department of Health (DH) published ‘Commissioning framework for health and well-being’ in early March 2007, which builds upon the White Paper ‘Our health, our care, our say’ published in January 2006.

The framework seeks to achieve the following:
• Improve links between health care and local people and communities and ensure people are put at the centre of commissioning;
• Promote joint strategic needs assessment of populations and individuals by health and local authority partners;
• Increase and improve sharing of information between health care and local authorities;
• Develop the provider market for health and social care in order to increase choice and assure high-quality providers for all services;
• Encourage commissioners to work with partners who can help people find employment, recognising the interdependence between work, health and well-being;
• Develop incentives within commissioning systems that encourage partnerships between different parts of the health service and between health and social care;
• Establish an accountability framework for joint commissioning; and
• Improve commissioning skills in general through capability and leadership.
It is proposed that this framework will be implemented from 2008/09 and a series of questions for consultation are included in the document (see appendix E), for which the closing date is 28 May 2007.

This is very much an aspirational document from the DH, which sets out a vision that the GPC believes is unlikely to be achievable in the short-term for a number of reasons.

This GPC paper highlights the proposals in the framework which are relevant specifically to the development of practice based commissioning (PBC) and wider commissioning.

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