Monitor 22 January 2015
- This report looks at what CCGs are doing about community services as the contracts entered into after the Transforming Community Services (TCS) programme expire.
- Many of the community services contracts put in place 3 to 5 years ago are expiring, giving commissioners an opportunity to move to new ways of working or new models of care or test which providers are most likely to achieve the changes that commissioners want for patients.
- The report summarises how the ‘Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition Regulations’ apply to some of commissioners’ decisions about commissioning community services.
- Includes case studies to show how some commissioners have commissioned community services or models of care.
