Commissioning Policies
- Health reform in England: update and commissioning framework
- Designed for life: creating world class health and social care for Wales in the 21st century
- Priorities for action: planning framework for the HPSS 2006–2008
- Early lessons in implementing practice based commissioning
- Commissioning framework for health and well-being
- Joint planning and commissioning framework for children, young people and maternity services
- Knowledge-based commissioning programme plan
- Practice based commissioning: practical implementation
- Practice based commissioning: early wins and top tips
- Independent advocacy: a guide for commissioners: supplement
- Making the shift: key success factors
- The operating framework for the NHS in England 2008/09
- World class commissioning
- New tool to reduce emergency hospital admissions PARR ++ (patients at risk of rehospitalisation)
Cardiovascular disease policies
The following policies provide information on commissioning and redesigning services around cardiovascular diseases to improve health care. These documents set targets and give indicators of high quality care.
Cardiovascular disease guidelines
The following guidelines provide information on how to redesign services around cardiovascular diseases to improve health care. The NHS Modernisation Agency Improvement Guides series contain good practice examples for service redesign. For instance, the acute myocardial infarction guide focuses on achievements in several collaborative programmes and whether the change was sustainable.
- British Heart Foundation. Heart disease and South Asians: delivering the National Service Framework for coronary heart disease, 2004.
- NHS Modernisation Agency. Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative service improvement guide: acute myocardial infarction, 2002.
- NHS Modernisation Agency. Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative service improvement guide: angina, 2002.
- NHS Heart Improvement Programme. Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative service improvement guide: heart failure, 2002
- NHS Modernisation Agency. Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative service improvement guide: rehabilitation service, 2002.
- NHS Modernisation Agency, Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative service improvement guide: revascularisation, 2002
- NHS Modernisation Agency. Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative service improvement guide: secondary prevention, 2002
- NHS Modernisation Agency. National Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative: coronary heart disease local programme self help toolkit, 2002.
- British Heart Foundation. Heart disease and South Asians: delivering the National Service Framework for coronary heart disease, 2004.
General Resources
- Department of Health. Establishing the responsible commissioner: guidance for PCT commissioners on the application of the legal framework on PCTs' secondary care commissioning responsibilities, 2006
- NATPACT, The commissioning friend for PCTs: whole system commissioning of acute services, 2004
- CSIP, Commissioning eBook: a resource to improve commissioning of community services, 2006
- Department of Health. National Service Frameworks: a practical aid to implementation in primary care.