The Health Service Journal (HSJ) reports that NHS England is currently working on a new commissioning strategy. Unsurprisingly references are made to an accountable care system and the role of CCGs within it. Place-based commissioning also gets a name-check. The Kings Fund will be pleased. Read More…
There is currently a bit of a buzz around Outcomes Based Commissioning. “Emperor’s new clothes” and “all smoke and mirrors” are just two of the responses I have received when I have sought to initiate a debate on the topic. Some of the scepticism I suspect is generated from a perceived view that this is just another theory/strategy imported from across the pond which will flounder on the rocks of the UK National Health Service.
I tend to a different view. If the NHS is serious about service transformation – and heaven knows the term gets banded around enough – then I believe it is incumbent upon us all to open our minds to innovative and creative thinking. Read More…