Developing MSK networks: a resource pack

"This resource pack provides commissioners of MSK services with a framework for planning and developing a local MSK network, and signposts to a wide range of additional materials which may be useful as they undertake this task. "

Developing MSK (muscoloskeletal) networks: a resource pack
ARMA, NHS England MSK Clinical Network Project
January 2015

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Commissioning supplement: Sorting the good ideas

"How the NHS is looking to CSUs to bring health and social care together, plus two CCGs show a new way for GPs to coordinate data"

Commissioning supplement: Sorting the good ideas
Health Service Journal Supplement, 14 November, 2014

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British Orthopaedic Association commissioning guides

The British Orthopaedic Association and Royal College of Surgeons have developed a range of guides to support commissioning. The guides are currently available for the following conditions:

• Painful deformed great toe in adults
• Painful tingling fingers
• Pain arising from the hip in adults
• Painful osteoarthritis of the knee
• Low back pain
• Subacromial shoulder pain

Access the guides here.

New NICE website

A new version of the NICE website was launched last month, with improvements in usability. Information about the NICE quality standards and  the Quality and Outcomes Framework can now all be found on the one page at: www.nice.org.uk/standards-and-indicators

A list of NICE Quality Standards can be found here.

The Into Practice webpage contains links to Commissioning Support, Audit and Service Improvement tools, and more.

NICE are welcoming your feedback on the new site - leave your comments here.

Commissioning support services: advice on whether to 'make, share or buy'

"....where CCGs wish to make changes to their commissioning support arrangements it is critical that the rationale behind these decisions is properly documented, that they can demonstrate that the new arrangements represent value for money and improved quality, and that the impact on the local health community and in particular neighbouring CCGs has been taken into account."

Commissioning support services: advice on whether to 'make, share or buy'
NHS England
November 2013

Read more here.