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Commissioning

Under reforms outlined in the Health and Social Care Act, clinical commissioning groups will take over responsibility for commissioning the majority of NHS services in England.

Overview

Guides for commissioners

How to measure for improving outcomes

Introductory guide to good governance for clinical commissioning groups

Primary care federations toolkit – for GP practices looking to form federations

Our ten priorities for commissioners

We set out ten priorities for action to help commissioners transform the health care system.
We set out ten priorities for action to help commissioners transform the health care system.

Reading Room

Want to know more on commissioning?

For more resources on commissioning, including reading lists, database searches and useful web pages, visit our Reading Room.

Relevant publications

Improving GP services in England Exploring the association between quality of care and the experience of patients

7 Nov 2012
Veena Raleigh, Francesca Frosini

Older people and emergency bed use Exploring variation

9 Aug 2012
Candace Imison, James Thompson
Emmi Poteliakhoff
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Leadership support

Find out more about our whole system leadership programme: designed to help support GPs working with key stakeholders

See our leadership programmes for clinicians

Find out about our tailored leadership programmes for organisations

Blogs on commissioning

A guide to the NHS Commissioning Board’s Everyone Counts

8 Jan 2013
Anna Dixon

Clinical commissioning groups: what do we know so far?

18 Dec 2012
Chris Naylor
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Relevant audio/video

Video

Stephen Dorrell: Time to Think Differently

Stephen Dorrell
Video

Paul Burstow: Time to Think Differently

Paul Burstow
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Relevant events

Time to Think Differently launch

Progressing health care in London

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Useful links

Catch up with our analysis of the NHS reforms

See our consultation responses and briefings

Find out about our forthcoming events

Our work on this topic

Multimedia: Video
Gill Thomas: the legal implications of GP commissioning
12 May 2011
Gill Thomas
Multimedia: Video
Robert Varnam: making the transition to GP commissioning
12 May 2011
Robert Varnam
Multimedia: Slideshow
Michael Dixon: to make and buy or not to make and buy
12 May 2011
Michael Dixon
Multimedia: Video
Lise Llewellyn and Martin McShane on commissioning
12 May 2011
Lise Llewellyn, Martin McShane
Multimedia: Video
Chris Ham: preparing for the commissioning challenges ahead
12 May 2011
Chris Ham
Event
GP Pathfinder Consortia Development Conference
12 May 2011
Multimedia: Video
Dr Michael Dixon: keeping GPs central to commissioning
12 May 2011
Michael Dixon
Blog
Achieving high-quality care at manageable costs: a lesson for GP consortia
15 Apr 2011
Paul Zollinger-Read
Blog
Commissioning for the future: will fact follow fiction?
8 Apr 2011
Natasha Curry
Article
Should diabetes be commissioned through multidisciplinary networks, rather than practice-based commissioning?
8 Apr 2011
Rachael Addicott, David Simmons, Patrick English, Peter Robins, Andrew Craig

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