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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

Publication
PBC two years on
1 Jul 2009
Julie Wood, Natasha Curry
Press release
GPs encouraged by government's vision for practice-based commissioning but barriers still hamper progress
1 Jul 2009
Project
Building high-quality commissioning: what role can external commissioners play?
17 Jun 2009
Blog
Making markets work for patients: are commissioners up for it?
29 May 2009
John Appleby
Press release
Government vision for PBC is welcome- challenge now is to engage and support GPs to make it work
4 Mar 2009
Article
Q&A on the Operating Framework for NHS leaders
16 Dec 2008
Karen Lynas
Publication
Commissioning and Behaviour Change
8 Dec 2008
Anna Dixon , Tammy Boyce, Ruth Robertson
Project
Kicking Bad Habits
3 Dec 2008
Press release
Achieve world-class commissioning with a new information source launched today by The King's Fund
25 Nov 2008
Publication
Practice-based commissioning
20 Nov 2008
Nick Goodwin, Chris Naylor , Natasha Curry, Ruth Robertson

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