World class commissioning: adding life to years and years to life - 5 Oct
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In order to deliver service redesign and improved health outcomes, commissioning needs to be strengthened across the NHS. By improving PCTs' commissioning capability , we can achieve the improvements specified in the NHS 10 year plan and further policy documents such as Our Health, Our Care, Our Say.
The Department of Health is currently working with commissioning stakeholders to help the NHS move towards world class commissioner status by improving commissioning capability.
World class commissioning is the way of obtaining the best value and health outcomes for local citizens by understanding their needs, and then specifying and procuring services that deliver the best possible health and social care provision and outcomes within available resources. Commissioners will work with their local partners, including local authorities, and providers from all sectors to establish long-term strategies for understanding and addressing the needs of the people they serve.
The current programme of work towards world class commissioning includes:
- articulating a vision and purpose for world class commissioning
- explaining how commissioning links to other NHS reforms and areas such as practice based commissioning
- setting out the key competencies that commissioning organisations will need in order to become world class commissioners
- creating a commissioning assurance framework to reward PCTs for delivering world class commissioning, and to hold them to account.
- putting in place a support and development framework to help PCTs attain world class commissioner status
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