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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This paper examines what outcomes-based commissioning means, the evidence to support it, progress to date on introducing the approach in England, and the optimum role of national policy in response to...
Quiet bravery: how two local health economies are transforming their health and social care
'What we know is that our current models for delivering long-term care aren’t sustainable. We can’t keep being paternalistic and wanting to fix everybody and expecting everybody to just comply with ou...
Outcomes-based commissioning - much promise, but is it something that CCGs can actually deliver on?
Outcomes-based commissioning is all the rage in the NHS. Many clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are seeing it as currently the only viable commissioning route to deliver on the vision set out in th...
Impact of key GP characteristics on unscheduled secondary care use and patient outcomes
The Frontier Economics project will examine whether GPs who are involved in training, commissioning and other initiatives achieve better outcomes for patients with long-term conditions, and contribute...
A fork in the road: the Enhanced Tariff Option
It’s been an important couple of weeks for the finance departments of all providers of NHS services. Following objections from 13% of commissioners, and 75% of relevant NHS providers by share of suppl...
Health Foundation reacts to 88% of providers opting for Enhanced Tariff Option
It has been announced today (6 March 2015) that 211 out of 241 NHS trusts have agreed to accept a new offer for national prices for services from NHS England and Monitor, the health service regulator....
What are the implications of objections to the 2015/16 tariff?
Last week Monitor and NHS England announced that, due to the number of objections raised against their proposals for the 2015/16 tariff, implementation of the new tariff would be delayed. Just over 1 ...
Star: helping commissioners to allocate resources efficiently
Star is a new approach to priority setting in healthcare, which combines value for money analysis with stakeholder engagement. We talk to Professor Bevan, whose team at LSE developed the approach, abo...
Developing a family-centred service through redesign, delivery and commissioning
Stoke-on-Trent experiences a high prevalence of long-term conditions and data demonstrates that lack of communication and coordination across services exacerbates the problem. This project is piloting...
Social prescribing: integrating GP and community health assets
Commissioned by City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group, this project aimed to improve the relationship between GPs and the local community, and to improve outcomes for patients. Wellbeing co-or...
Personal perspectives on the future of primary care
Primary care, and in particular GP services, are increasingly the centre of attention when it comes to reforms to the UK health system. We talked to a range of senior leaders about what they feel are ...
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