Commissioning How the NHS and other health and care services spend their budgets is important

Commissioning has an impact on patient outcomes, and whether services meet the wider needs of the population, and deliver value for money for the taxpayer.

Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.

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Perspectives of paediatric hospital staff on factors influencing the sustainability and spread of a safety quality improvement programme

Journal article

22 March 2021

Hospital staff perspectives on sustainability and and safety of quality improvement programmes in paediatric care.

Blog

13 January 2023

Richard Humphries reflects on the extra government funding announced to help speed up hospital discharge – and considers the pitfalls of this approach.

Journal article

9 October 2022

Local partnerships as means to improve health in England.

Blog

29 September 2022

Hugh Alderwick reflects on new findings about the effects of devolution in Greater Manchester on health outcomes.

Reforming health care: reflections from a former health minister – with Lord Norman Warner

Podcast

26 May 2022

Episode 20. The NHS is experiencing an unusual set of pressures at the moment. Lord Norman Warner shares his insights and reflects on what might be ahead.

Reflections from a former health minister

Long-term cost-effectiveness of interventions for obesity

Journal article

27 August 2021

A mendelian randomisation study.

Podcast

22 March 2021

Episode 6. What can the Biden administration accomplish on health and health care in the next four years?

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Webinar: The Health and Care White Paper unbound

Event

11 March 2021

Watch back as our panel critically assessed the major proposals set out in the government's February White Paper on NHS and Care.

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Open tendering and open performance: making care and support accountable to those who give and those who receive care and support

Research project

Project that is aiming to demonstrate the value of quality, open data and show the impact that transparent and open tendering has on the quality of a social care service and the experience of people g...

Journal article

19 July 2020

Exploring public involvement in changing health care.

Journal article

6 April 2020

Comparing Arm's Length Bodies in UK.

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Commissioning How the NHS and other health and care services spend their budgets is important

Perspectives of paediatric hospital staff on factors influencing the sustainability and spread of a safety quality improvement programme

Hospital discharge funding: why the frosty reception to new money?

A cure for everything and nothing?

Understanding the impact of devolution in Greater Manchester on health

Reforming health care: reflections from a former health minister – with Lord Norman Warner

Long-term cost-effectiveness of interventions for obesity

President Biden’s uphill task on US health care

Webinar: The Health and Care White Paper unbound

Open tendering and open performance: making care and support accountable to those who give and those who receive care and support

Changing health care with, for, or against the public

Between a rock and a hard place

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