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)
Respiratory disease policies
A link to the proposed COPD national service framework below gives some background to this document-please note that the full policy will be released in 2008.
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease national service framework (proposed, to be published in 2008)
- Asthma and PCGs: planning for the future
Additional Policies
- Guidance on smoking policies for the NHS, local authorities and care service providers
- Choosing health: making healthier choices easier
- A five year tobacco action plan 2003-2008
- WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)
Respiratory disease guidelines
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), General Practice Airways Group (GPIAG), Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), and others have published guidance on service redesign for respiratory diseases.
Two NICE guidelines focus on assisted-discharge and pulmonary rehabilitation services, which include information on determining local service levels and ensuring quality of services.
The GPIAG/Respiratory Alliance guidance provides a checklist of patient expectations and minimum standards for commissioning services for respiratory diseases.
Section 9 of the SIGN guidance has recommendations for service delivery.
The British Thoracic Society guideline provides a summary of key priorities on ‘hospital-at-home’ service delivery.
- Assisted-discharge service for patients with COPD
- Pulmonary rehabilitation service for patients with COPD
- Intermediate care: hospital-at-home in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. British Thoracic Society Guideline
- British guideline on the management of asthma (revised November 2005)
- Bridging the gap. Commissioning and delivering high quality integrated respiratory healthcare: a report from the Respiratory Alliance
Additional Guidelines
- Prodigy guidance: smoking cessation
- Brief interventions and referral for smoking cessation in primary care and other settings
General Resources
- Establishing the responsible commissioner: guidance for PCT commissioners on the application of the legal framework on PCTs' secondary care commissioning responsibilities
- The commissioning friend for PCTs: whole system commissioning of acute services, revised March 2004
- Commissioning eBook: a resource to improve commissioning of community services
- National service frameworks: a practical aid to implementation in primary care