Commissioning is akin to a relay race, with colleagues from different disciplines, Directorates and organisations, needing to deliver on their part of the process and hand on the baton at the appropriate stage.
Across the piece it calls for an understanding of policy, duties and guidance, strategic analysis of local health needs, skills in handling data, the ability to involve service users, service specification, an understanding of the supplier market and the ability to forge partnerships with providers. It also requires financial acumen, negotiating techniques, contracting and performance management. Library and information staff need to understand the roles and information needs of all those involved in commissioning, as well as their changing priorities.
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Tips on searching the web:
- (information need*" OR role*) AND
- ("world class commissioning" OR wcc OR "commission*)
- To limit to NHS papers, try combining your results with: (pct OR "primary care trust" OR nhs)
- You can search for terms such as "board paper" / "strategy" to help to locate Trust papers
More focused commissioning terms to try:
“joint commissioning” / “lead commissioning” / “locality Commissioning” / “personalised commissioning” / “practice-based commissioning / pbc / “specialist commissioning” / “strategic commissioning” / “world class commissioning” / wcc
Also have a look at our summary of tips on searching the web and visit the Commissioning Specialist Library - a one-stop shop, providing timely and efficient access to high quality information resources for all those involved in commissioning.
Useful keywords for searching HMIC: Information needs; Roles; Commissioning
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Commissioning e-book
Commissioners have developed a comparable handbook. Who are commissoners? Contributions reflect real challenges, explore good practice in the commissioning process. It includes case studies, examples of innovation and articles on commissioning models.
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Improvement Foundation: Commissioning healthcare services
Brief stories that illustrate the kinds of improvements that commissioners are trying to achieve.
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Who pays? Establishing the responsible commissioner
A framework for establishing responsibility for commissioning an individual's care within the NHS, i.e. determining who pays for a patient’s care
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Understanding commissioning for voluntary and community organisations
CSIP report to help both third sector organisations to understand the commissioning process and their role in it, and commissioners to understand the needs of voluntary and community organisations.
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User scenarios
Positioning library services: Supporting world class commissioning
Tim Jones, NHS commissioning specialist sets out the drivers and themes for information specialists, the priorities for commissioners, and presents several scenarios to illustrate their information needs.
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Types of commissioning
Links to useful sources of information on the many different types of commissioning are available from the Commissioning Specialist Library: specialist commissioning, personalised commissioning, practice-based commissioning, strategic commissioning, lead commissioning and joint commissioning.
Key topicsgive brief summaries and links to useful sources of information.
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Commissioning specialised services
Department of Health page on commissioning specialised services.
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Practice based commissioning
Department of Health page on PbC.
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