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New World Class Commissioning Assurance Process: we want your ideas

Last week, the Department of Health launched the second World Class Commissioning assurance process. Over the coming months, all PCTs will be required to demonstrate performance improvements against health outcomes, commissioning capabilities and governance. The most successful PCTs stand to be rewarded...

Posted to Discussion Point (Forum) by Deborah Rozansky on 09-28-2009

Using Social-networking to engage young people in commissioning.

The Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) recently published an interesting paper on how commissioners can use social networks to take into account the views of children and young people when they make decisions about how best to use the children’s budget in order to improve outcomes. The paper...

Posted to Discussion Point (Forum) by Judith Smyth on 08-26-2009

Balancing perspectives: partnership vs individual organisation

One of the complications that many professionals are noticing is the difficulty in balancing the perspectives of partnership working against individual organisation needs. How do you ensure that everybody is working within the same set of rules, whilst also allowing for the rules to be varied as necessary...

Posted to Discussion Point (Forum) by Michael Watts on 06-17-2009

A call for information and advice on Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE)

About 18 months ago we let contracts for preventative services. We had bids in from the full range of providers including those in the statutory, voluntary, community and independent sectors. The majority of the contracts were awarded to voluntary sector providers. Following legal advice we included...

Posted to Discussion Point (Forum) by Naomi Compton on 06-04-2009

Commissioning youth services and the LSC transfer

I recently attended the National Youth Commissioning Forum which brought together commissioners and providers of youth services to discuss some of the really pressing issues relating to commissioning of effective youth services. It was a really useful and interesting day (set in the very impressive Emirates...

Posted to Discussion Point (Forum) by Ayesha Janjua on 05-29-2009

How the Commissioning Support Programme can help you involve GPs in your Children’s Trust

Helping children’s services directors to commission services to improve child health is still on my mind this week, as well as concerns over the future of community health services. I have been thinking about what needs to be done in children’s centres and schools to ensure that health visitors...

Posted to Discussion Point (Forum) by Judith Smyth on 05-13-2009