What is good commissioning? a route map for LAs

Commissioning for better outcomes: a route map
Health Services Management Centre for the LGA, 3 November 2014

• A series of standards which describe commissioning, designed to be used by Local Authorities to engage with their commissioning partners in a dialogue about the quality of local commissioning.
• The standards will be used to critically examine the quality of their commissioning practice and then as a framework for the peer challenge process. 
• A peer review methodology will be published in 2015 - see http://www.local.gov.uk/peer-challenge 
• The twelve standards set out ambitions for what good commissioning is:

1. Person-centred and focuses on outcomes 
2. Promotes health and wellbeing for all
3. Delivers social value 
4. Coproduced with people, their carers and their communities 
5. Promotes positive engagement with providers -
6. Promotes equality 
7. Well led by Local Authorities 
8. Demonstrates a whole system approach
9. Uses evidence about what works
10. Ensures diversity, sustainability and quality of the market -
11. Provides value for money 
12. Develops the commissioning and provider workforce