The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published three new commissioning guides to help the NHS in England effectively commission evidence-based care for patients. The guides cover services for:
Guides also due for publication before the end of the year will cover services for:
- Obits media with effusion
- Patient education for people with type 2 diabetes
- Smoking cessation for people having elective surgery
- Diagnosis and initial management of stroke
- Diagnosis and initial management of transient ischaemic attack
Each commissioning guide signposts and provides topic-specific information on key clinical and service-related issues to consider during the commissioning process. They also offer an indicative benchmark of activity to help commissioners determine the level of service needed locally. Within each commissioning guide, an interactive commissioning tool provides data for local comparison against the benchmark and resources to estimate and inform the cost of commissioning intentions. NICE has updated population, activity and tariff data presented within the 15 commissioning tools already published. The ‘one stop’ resource now brings together more recently available data and will help users review current commissioning activity and make robust commissioning decisions to improve the range and quality of health services available to patients.
Tutorial for using commissioning tool.
Posts
