Clinical commissioning groups – one year on

"In this audio slideshow, Holly Holder, Fellow in Health Policy, Nuffield Trust, presents the key findings from a survey of GPs in six clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). The survey explored member engagement and primary care development one year after CCGs were introduced."

Holly Holder: clinical commissioning groups – one year on

Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund 

April 2014

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Clinical engagement in high-value commissioning

"Following concern from the Department of Health and Surgical Specialty Associations that there was unexplained variation in the rates of some elective surgical procedures between Primary Care Trusts and that PCTs were varying in their use of “thresholds” for funding these procedures, an engagement exercise was undertaken to bring together commissioners, surgeons and patient representatives to develop an evidence based approach to identifying variation and setting commissioning guidance which could be used nationally to reduce unexplained variation."

Clinical engagement in high-value commissioning: elective surgical procedures
N Beasley
Right Care Casebook Series
January 2013

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