Useful links
- Armchair involvement
This website provides a practical guide to using different types of technology to engage people in health service improvement.
www.institute.nhs.uk/armchair
- Care Services Efficiency Delivery (CSED) programme
The CSED team works with local councils, the NHS and service providers to improve adult social care, focusing on areas such as demand forecasting and capacity planning.
www.csed.csip.org.uk
- Centre for Public Innovation
This website offers examples of outcome-based commissioning in practice, and newsletters on commissioning.
www.publicinnovation.org.uk/?page=innovate/outcomes.html
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
This website publishes inspection reports on care homes, home care and other registered services, plus resources on commissioning social care.
www.csci.org.uk
- Commissioning Specialist Library
This website aims to provide the best available evidence, examples of good practice, policy and data to support world class commissioning.
www.library.nhs.uk/commissioning
Compact
This website offers codes of good practice to improve partnership working between statutory and voluntary organisations.
www.thecompact.org.uk
- Improvement Foundation
This website includes Improvement Foundation tools for commissioning and contracting, including a care model to manage complex needs.
www.improvementfoundation.org
- Improvement & Development Agency (IDeA)
This website provides tools to help local authorities improve services and covers areas such as health inequalities, local area agreements and adult social care.
www.idea.gov.uk
- In Control
In Control helps councils introduce systems enabling people to plan their own support using personal budgets.
http://www.in-control.org.uk
- King's Fund
This website offers commissioning resources, including consultation responses, and suggested reading lists on specific topics such as commissioning new providers.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/health_topics/commissioning.html
- Mosaic
This project promotes racial equality in and through NHS procurement. Initiatives have resulted in resources including tools, checklists and case studies.
www.mosaic.nhs.uk
- NHS Centre for Involvement
This website offers tools and communication channels to encourage the involvement of public and patients in health and social care decision-making.
www.nhscentreforinvolvement.nhs.uk
- NHS National Information Centre
This is a data collection hub providing national health and social care information to local decision makers.
www.ic.nhs.uk/commissioningfilm
- NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
This website has materials to support an accelerated world class commissioning development programme and a specific portal for PCTs.
www.institute.nhs.uk
- NHS Primary Care Contracting
This offers commissioning and contracting support to PCTs and practices, including case studies and toolkits.
www.primarycarecontracting.nhs.uk
- NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency
This website includes policy and legal information on NHS procurement and best practice in collaborative purchasing arrangements.
www.pasa.nhs.uk
- NHS Supply2Health
NHS commissioners post details of tendering opportunities and contract awards on this site, helping suppliers understand what PCTs want.
www.supply2health.nhs.uk
- No delays achiever
This service improvement tools enables commissioners to view data to identify where delays are occurring in the patient pathway and priority areas to address.
www.nodelaysachiever.nhs.uk
- Office of Government Commerce (OGC)
This website offers a range of resources relating to procurement policy across the public sector, standards and skills.
www.ogc.gov.uk
- Skills for Care
Skills for Care is developing national occupational standards in commissioning, contracting and procurement to encourage more strategic commissioning.
http://www.skillsforcare.org.uk
- Skills for Health
This outlines management competences covering commissioning skills such as understanding the market, working with stakeholders and encouraging innovation.
http://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk
- World class commissioning
These Department of Health web pages offer news of WCC-related initiatives such as commissioner support frameworks, videos and feedback from events.
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Policyandguidance/Organisationpolicy/Commissioning/Worldclasscommissioning/index.htm
- World class commissioning toolkit
This online resource offers guidance, tools and templates to support commissioners through the five stages of the commissioning assurance process. http://www.wccassurance.dh.gov.uk