Transforming our health care system

The King's Fund has outlined ten priorities for commissioning:

1. Active support for self-management
2. Primary prevention
3. Secondary prevention
4. Managing ambulatory care-sensitive conditions
5. Improving the management of patients with both mental and physical health needs
6. Care co-ordination through integrated health and social care teams
7. Improving primary care management of end-of-life care
8. Medicines management
9. Managing elective activity – referral quality 
10. Managing urgent and emergency activity

Transforming our health care system: ten priorities for commissioners
C Naylor, et al.
The King's Fund
April 2013

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