Commissioning for health and social care /

Key need 1 Health professionals increasingly need to make decisions on purchasing and resourcing as more control is devolved to health and social care providers.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Oxford Brookes University. Institute of Public Care (Author), Sage Publications
Other Authors:	Clabburn, Alex (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles : SAGE, 2014.
Subjects:	Health services administration. Social work administration. State Medicine > economics > Great Britain. Health Services Administration > economics > Great Britain. Social Work > economics > Great Britain. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

chapter 1. An introduction to commissioning and procurement
chapter 2. Why, when and how to commission
chapter 3. Conducting strategic needs assessments
chapter 4. Mapping resources
chapter 5. Strategic analysis tools for commissioning
chapter 6. Managing the strategy and communicating with stakeholders
chapter 7. Towards effective service design
chapter 8. Market facilitation
chapter 9. Procurement and the contracting process
chapter 10. Contracting for personalised services
chapter 11. Managing service performance
chapter 12. Decommissioning
chapter 13. Achieving value for money.