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No excuses. Embrace partnership now. Step towards change! Report of the third sector commissioning task force plus Easy Read version

  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    11 July 2006
  • Primary audience:
    Professionals
  • Product number:
    275810
  • Gateway reference:
    6818
  • Pages:
    36
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

A report setting out the conclusions of the Third Sector Commissioning Task Force, set up to promote a sound commercial relationship between commissioners of health and social care services and the third sector as providers, and help remove barriers to entry for all potential providers of health and social care.


Easy read version published 25 November 2006

This report sets out the conclusions and recommendations from the Third Sector Commissioning Task Force, set up by Ministers in July 2005 to:

A. promote a sound commercial relationship between public sector commissioners of health and social care services, and the third sector as providers of those services

B. help to remove barriers to entry for all providers of health and social care services, and

C. promote equality of access for all types of third sector organisations, compared with providers from other sectors, in the public provision of public sector health and social care services

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While the main feedback on the ideas on this document has now closed, people who need to use this Easy Read version can have until the end of January 2007 to have their say.

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