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| Exploring strategic commissioning | | Author(s) | Tony Heywood |
| Journal title | Journal of Care Services Management, vol 1, no 1, September 2006 |
| Publisher | London, September 2006 |
| Pages | pp 7-15 |
| Source | http://www.henrystewart.com |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Planning [admin] ; Finance [care] ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The purpose of commissioning is "to create an environment which supports choice and control through the delivery of services built around what each person actually wants, not only to meet their health and care needs, but also to improve their well being". The current system is confusing and inefficient, failing to integrate services provided from different public sector organisations or from the independent sector. The government's desire for housing-based substitutes is expected to replace the majority of residential care home provision. It is an economic necessity to keep people out of expensive hospital provision through enhancing community-based services using cheaper and more appropriate alternatives. There remains considerable scope within the financial envelope of the National Health Service (NHS) to deliver further efficiencies and better resource utilisation. Creative thinking is needed regarding the utilisation of care homes. The White Paper 'Our health, our care, our say' (Cm 6737; TSO, 2006) puts a clear focus on joint commissioning and pooling budgets, but the balance of funding has to change to enable the delivery of the outlined version. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070206201 A |
| Classmark | I: L: QA6: QC: TM2 |
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