Moving towards strategic commissioning: impact on clinical commissioning groups as membership organizations

Leadership of healthcare commissioning networks in England: a mixed-methods study on clinical commissioning groups

OBJECTIVE To explore the relational challenges for general practitioner (GP) leaders setting up new network-centric commissioning organisations in the recent health policy reform in England, we use innovation network theory to identify key network leadership practices that facilitate healthcare innovation. DESIGN Mixed-method, multisite and case study research. SETTING Six clinical commissi...

Accountable Care Organizations and Clinical Commissioning Groups Face an Uncertain Challenge for Improving Public Health

UNLABELLED Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in the United States of America (USA) and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in the United Kingdom (UK) are newly proposed cross-organisational structures in health services both tasked with a role which includes improving public health. Although there are very significant differences between the UK and USA health systems, there appears to be s...

Towards World Class Commissioning Competency

The paper considers the overarching objectives of the UK healthcare system, and the ways in which commissioning was originally intended to contribute to the achievement of these objectives. It also reviews a number of existing frameworks describing the activities of commissioners and the competencies required to perform these tasks effectively. From this, fourteen domains of competency for worl...

Clinical commissioning groups: Supporting improvement in general practice?

SRH commissioning in England: moving beyond transition.

To cite: Wilkinson C. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2015;41:5–7. BACKGROUND Sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) is highly cost effective. 2 Of all modern healthcare interventions, contraception has had one of the most profound and positive effects on the health of women and society. In the UK, the extent of the benefit is not always recognised, but the importance of access to care has bee...