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This suite of three documents provide clarity to ensure the best possible providers offer the highest quality of care for patients at the best possible price for taxpayers. This guidance reflects the priorities of the NHS in improving quality, achieving significant increases in productivity and bring more personalised, efficient and streamlined care closer to people’s homes.
These documents are for commissioners and form part of a series of supporting guides to help primary care trusts become world class commissioners of primary care and community services. They have been co-produced by NHS East of England, NHS Primary Care Commissioning (NHS PCC), and the Department of Health.
Monthly bulletins on the development of new standard contracts for NHS mental health, community, and ambulance services, to be introduced from April 2009.
These documents for commissioners using practice-based commissioning (PBC) and primary care trusts (PCTs), describe techniques to help identify areas where services can be redesigned, thereby freeing up resources to focus on clinically needy patients. Care and resource utilisation (CRU) is all about giving the patient the right treatment in the right place at the right time.
Recent inquiries have demonstrated the health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities, and the reasonable adjustments needed to overcome them. This is a practical guide to support commissioners to meet the needs of this group, and ensure they are fulfilling their duty to promote equality.
Letter containing the document Key messages for commissioners of cancer services for teenagers and young adults, developed by the National Cancer Action Team (with advice and support from an expert working group) at the request of the Children and Young People Improving Outcomes Guidance (CYPIOG) Advisory Group to support the implementation of National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance, Improving outcomes for children and young people with cancer.
The diabetes commissioning toolkit provides advice for all commissioners of diabetes services. It describes how to carry out a health needs assessment for a local diabetes population and provides a generic specification for diabetes care, signposting recognised quality markers and suggesting key outcomes for the service.
This paper is intended to be used as a best practice guide. Its aim is to clarify the existing roles and responsibilities in the NHS, in order to ensure that consistent and appropriate commissioning and performance management arrangements for screening programmes are in place.
This document, published in September 2007, set out a framework for establishing responsibility for commissioning an individual's care within the NHS, in particular determining who pays for a patient’s care.
The Fitness for Purpose programme ran from May 2006 to March 2007 and was designed to assess PCT capabilities.
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