Care commissioning process is too laborious, report concludes

Source: BMJ, Nuffield Trust Area: News BMJ News features a story on a report by the Nuffield Trust which highlights the findings of an in-depth study of commissioning for people with long-term conditions. The study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) Programme. The Nuffield Trust carried out a 15 month (November 2010 to January 2012) study of commissioning practice in three high-performing primary care trust (PCT) areas (Calderdale, Somerset and the Wirral). The authors carried out detailed observation around what the trusts actually did around commissioning on a day-to day basis during this time, focusing on how they sought to develop and improve care for people with diabetes, dementia, and stroke.   A major finding was the sheer scale of the 'labour of commissioning' - the amount of meetings, discussions, planning, and analysis involved in the review and commissioning of often small-scale service changes. Commissioners had more of a ...
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