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)
Learning disabilities policies
Valuing People is based on the key principles of legal and civil rights, having a choice, independence, and social inclusion. The Autism Exemplar shows the journey of a child with autism through health care, and it highlights important standards along the way.
| DH, Autism Exemplar, National Service Framework for children, young people and maternity services, 2004 | External Link |
| DH, Family matters: counting families in, 2001 | External Link |
| DH, Valuing people: a new strategy for learning disability for the 21st century: implementation guidance, 2001 | External Link |
| DH, Learning difficulties and ethnicity: full report, 2001 | External Link |
| DH, Quality strategy for social care, 2000 | External Link |
Learning disabilities guidelines
These documents cover a range of purposes – from providing information on training and informing parents of children with learning disabilities to how best to redesign services to support people with learning disabilities.
| NICE, External Link , 2006 | External Link |
| Contact a Family, External Link , 2003 | External Link |
| DH, External Link , 2004 | External Link |
| DH, External Link , 2004 | External Link |
| DH, External Link , 2002 | External Link |
General Resources
- DH, 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
- DH, National Service Frameworks: a practical aid to implementation in primary care