CCG alert: choice

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23 August 2016

CCGs have a duty to enable patients to make choices, and to promote their involvement in decisions in respect of their care or treatment. This guide is designed to help CCGs deliver their statutory duties by highlighting the actions they now need to take to make choice work well for the populations they serve.
The guide sets out the nine minimum standards on choice that CCGs and providers must meet, and six enablers and corresponding action actions, as well as a self assessment template.
Use of the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) is a key enabler for both choice and more efficient referrals. There is an expectation of 100% utilisation of e-RS by 2017/18.
Choice will be a key component within an STP

This Framework clearly sets out the different choices people are able to make in relation to their care and support, including:

a ‘one-stop’ web-based resource to help commissioners, providers and patients understand where choice and competition may be appropriate and helpful in improving patient outcomes as well as where they may not, based on the available evidence.
First release due Spring 2013.

“To help ensure that commissioners’ decisions on buying clinical services are transparent and fair, and that they improve the quality and efficiency of health care services for patients.”
Concerns about the the precise wording of the original regulations (13 Feb 2013) caused the government to " improve the drafting of the regulations so there can be no doubt about how they apply" and confirm that there is no requirement to put all contracts out to competitive tender.
Comes into force 1 April 2013