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Practice Based Commissioning: Promoting Clinical Engagement

  • Document type:
    Guidance
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    15 December 2004
  • Primary audience:
    Professionals
  • Pages:
    16
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

This is the Department of Health's guidance on Practice Based Commissioning. It is based on the paper, Practice Based Commissioning: Engaging practices in commissioning, published on 5 October 2004. That paper was revised following feedback received from the NHS.

This guidance provides a framework for the local implementation of Practice Based Commissioning.  We believe that Practice Based Commissioning will produce the following positive outcomes:

  • A greater variety of services, from a greater number of providers in settings that are closer to home and more convenient to patients.
  • Increased support of clinician-to-clinician dialogue about improving and developing care processes.
  • Early and continuing involvement of practitioners in service development
  • An additional set of levers to aid demand management.

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