Commissioning Support Lead Provider Framework

"NHS England has developed a new framework agreement for commissioning support services – the Lead Provider Framework (LPF). It enables Clinical Commissioning Groups(CCGs), NHS England and other customers to source some or all of their commissioning support needs"

Commissioning Support Lead Provider Framework
NHS England

Find out more and access the framework here.

Evidence summaries (decision boxes) to prepare clinicians for shared decision-making with patients

"Decision boxes (Dboxes) provide clinicians with research evidence about management options for medical questions that have no single best answer. Dboxes fulfil a need for rapid clinical training tools to prepare clinicians for clinician-patient communication and shared decision-making. We studied the barriers and facilitators to using the Dbox information in clinical practice"

Evidence summaries (decision boxes) to prepare clinicians for shared decision-making with patients: a mixed methods implementation study
AMC Giguere et al.
Implementation Science 2014, 9:144

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Introduction of new technologies and decision making processes

"Introducing new health technologies, including medical devices, into a local setting in a safe, effective, and transparent manner is a complex process, involving many disciplines and players within an organization."

Introduction of new technologies and decision making processes: a framework to adapt a Local Health Technology Decision Support Program for other local settings
P Poulin, L Austen, CM Scott, M Poulin, N Gall, J Seidel, R Lafreniere
Medical Devices: Evidence and Research, 2013, 6:185-193

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Evaluating disease management programmes: learning from diverse approaches across Europe

"The project reviewed the policy context for, and approaches to, chronic disease management in 13 European countries, using a structured data collection instrument that organised chronic disease management around four components: active patient involvement, service design, decision support and clinical information systems."

Evaluating disease management programmes: learning from diverse approaches across Europe
E Nolte, et al.
RAND Europe
October 2012

Read more here.

Use of decision technologies in health care

These two audio slideshows are produced by the Nuffield Trust. They explain how decision technologies can be used in the NHS to help patients, clinicians, managers and commissioners make more informed decisions, and explore some of the existing applications of decision technologies in the health service.

• Listen to audio slideshow 1.
• Listen to audio slideshow 2.