Commissioning and contracting

Our work on the ways in which NHS, health and care services are commissioned and purchased

Thinking differently about commissioning report

Thinking differently about commissioning: learning from new approaches to local planning

Our report examines the approach being taken by some clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and local systems where traditional notions of commissioning are no longer guiding their way of working.

What is commissioning and how is it changing?

Commissioning is the process by which health and care services are planned, purchased and monitored. Here we look at the commissioning process in more detail, the organisations involved and how it is changing.

Payments and contracting for integrated care: The false promise of the self-improving health system

Why should the new payment systems being developed to support integrated care be any more successful than previous ones? This new report calls for urgent reform of the system for paying and contracting services in the NHS.

Commissioned report

Commissioner perspectives on working with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector

This report explores how and why clinical commissioning groups and local authorities are engaging with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

Integrated care: commissioning and contracting reading list

A selected list of references held by The King's Fund library.

Access to care: Our work on rationing and other ways of controlling access to NHS, health and care services

NHS finances: Our work on NHS funding, budgets and finances