Commissioning
We support clients to become excellent commissioners, with a particular focus on the use of benchmarking and implementation of best practice:
- Supporting procurement processes
- Use of benchmarking to understand existing service provision
- Applying benchmarking techniques to identify commissioning savings and quality improvements
- Capacity planning and modelling
We have supported clients in commissioning new services including:
- Intermediate care
- CAMHS and specialist mental health services
- Maternity services
- Out of hours care and other primary care developments
- New secondary care models
- Multi-agency projects such as new children's services models
- Shared and corporate functions
We have undertaken market testing and service tendering in the following areas:
- Shared services
- Maternity services
- Unscheduled care
- New primary care models
- Out of hours care