Understand values-based commissioning
Values-based commissioning is underpinned by the patient and carer perspective, clinical expertise and evidence. Read more »
Values-based commissioning is underpinned by the patient and carer perspective, clinical expertise and evidence. Read more »
Tips on how to ensure that primary prevention strategies and public mental health strategies reflect commitment to local communities and suggest ways to build positive relationships and encourage local leadership and initiative. Read more »
Tips on how to involve service users and carers in monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of mental health services. Read more »
It is important to consider how to ensure high quality services for people who have addictions. Read more »
It is important to consider how to ensure high quality services for prisoners, ex-prisoners and people serving sentences in the community. Read more »
Use Payment by Results to establish basic standards of care for people diagnosed with specific conditions. Read more »
It is important to be clear about what you are looking for from secondary mental health services. Read more »
It can be helpul to use financial incentives to encourage providers to achieve specific local targets. For example use CQUIN schemes and QIPP to reduce out-of-area treatments, length-of-stay and admission rates. Read more »
It is important to commission case management where care pathways (the set of services encountered by a patient) involve more than one provider. Read more »
It is important to carry out systematic checks in order to ensure high standards of quality and safety, and measure clinical outcomes in primary and secondary care. Read more »