Developing high quality, cost effective commissioning support services

NHS England announces new roadmap: ‘Towards commissioning excellence: a strategy for commissioning support services’

New interactive CCG outcomes tool

NHS England have produced an interactive outcomes tool to allow CCGs to compare their outcomes with those from other CCGs

Right Care Procedures data tool

Right Care data tool that allows users to see how individual commissioners and providers are performing against simple measures.

Programmed for Improvement – Right Care in Healthcare Finance June 2013

“Analysing programme spend alongside outcomes could be the starting point for clinical commissioning groups keen to get the most out of investments”, writes Steve Brown. The article examines the use…

Acheiving Value in Health Systems – HFMA Right Care briefing out now

Our Matthew Cripps has authored this special briefing for the Health Finance Managers Association – Acheiving Value in Health Systems -  and describes how Right Care’s approach supports the delivery…

National Surgical Commissioning Centre

This online resource brings together commissioning guidance and provides access to a tool designed to help commissioners understand local clinical variation for surgical procedures

Comprehensive toolkit for commissioning HIV testing services in England

National AIDS Trust has produced an HIV testing toolkit to help reduce the prevalence of undiagnosed HIV infection, which is now a public health priority

Report captures critical lessons and translates them into messages that are relevant to new commissioners

This NHS Confederation report explores the achievements and challenges experienced over more than a decade of NHS commissioning

Document of the Week (8th April): The new NHS

The King’s Fund examines the changes in the NHS that came into force on 1st April 2013

Ten priorities for commissioners

This paper, originally published in March 2011, has been updated to reflect changes in the NHS from 1st April