Details of organisations providing support for commissioners:

APHOs 

The Association of Public Health Observatories represents a network of 12 PHOs. They produce information, data and intelligence on people's health and health care for practitioners, policy makers and the wider community. Their expertise lies in turning information and data into meaningful health intelligence. Polciy interpretaion, training for analysts, support for needs asssessment and marketing skills.

Commissioning Support for London exists to "provide clinical and business support to NHS commissioners across London", including production of a set of products which will make commissioning decisions easier and more efficient.

[AG 280809]

Improvement Foundation (Commissioning Healthcare Services)

NHS Information Centre (Commissioning) 

The NHS IC acts as a hub for high quality, national, comparative data for secondary uses.

[AW 121108]

NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (Commissioning)

It has developed, and is continuing to work with primary care trusts to improve, a number of products that focus on the world class commissioning competencies.

• PCT Portal registration required to use the Directory of suppliers on this site. See also PCT to PCT which lets PCTs and PCT collaboratives to share their products with others.  South Central PCT Alliance WCC Collaborative Programme are the first to share their toolkit for patient and public involvement and world class commissioning. 

[AW 021008]

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.  The brochure - NICE support for commissioning, provides details of resources available.

[SR 181208]

Public Health Commissioning Network a central internet discussion forum and document store, open to all public health professionals (and others) involved in NHS commissioning. 

[AG 140709]