NHS Providers June 2017
- A series of interviews with providers from across the NHS discussing the commissioning landscape.
- Includes a potted history of commissioning in healthcare.
- Five key interlinked and overlapping themes emerge from the interviews:
- the value of commissioning getting closer to people...
- ..and understanding local place: the importance of scale and geography
- the need to accept the emerging diversity of approach to commissioning structures
- the rapid blurring of the purchaser-provider split and a lesser focus on the internal market
- the need to focus on commissioning as a strategic function.
- "As the NHS moves to collaborative local system working via sustainability and transformation partnerships and accountable care organisations and systems, we need a full and proper debate about how commissioning (and provision) needs to adapt to this new, emerging, world."
