NHS England 7 August 2017
- Following consultation NHS England has published revised Accountable Care Organisation (ACO) Contract and supporting documents for use by local commissioners to inform the early stages of their procurement processes. The Contract can now be used for accountable care models generally, including MCP and integrated primary and acute care system (PACS) models.
- Documents include:
- Integrating care: contracting for accountable models
- Accountable Care Organisation (ACO) Contract
- ACO Contract Particulars
- ACO Contract Service Conditions
- ACO Contract General Conditions
- Explanatory notes to the Contract
- Summary of engagement feedback
- Template Integration Agreement – overview
- Template Integration Agreement for partially integrated ACOs
- Procurement and assurance approach
- GP participation in an MCP
- ACOs and the NHS commissioning system
- Finance and payment approach for ACOs
- Whole population models of provision: Establishing integrated budgets
- Incentives framework for ACOs
- Accountable models and NHS Pensions
- Contract package Questions and Answers
