New release of NICE commissioning tools

In December 2007 NICE released an updated version (version 2) of the commissioning tools, offering enhanced functionality to end users, and updating the five commissioning tools published last year for activity, population and Payment by Results data.

This new version of the commissioning tools enables; commissioners within strategic health authorities to log in and view data at primary care trust level; general practices within a commissioning group to give other practices in their group permission to view their data, and to model commissioning intentions for the group; 3-year planning of commissioning intentions; the creation of user notes to accompany any commissioning model created; printing of selected tables, or all tables, within a commissioning tool together with any associated user notes.

Over December 2007 and January 2008 six new tools have been released.