Transforming community services: ambition, action, achievement

These Department of Health best practice guides have a vital role to play in the delivery of the intentions for High Quality Care for All: the Next Stage Review. They set out ambitions, taking action and measurement of the achievement and link with, should be read in conjunction with the quality framework/quality indicators.

Published June 2009

The future of Community Health Services

The Department of Health requires primary care trusts (PCTs) to lay out a strategic vision and organisational options for the community health services that they currently manage. This provides PCTs with an opportunity to address many years of neglect in these services and to prepare for the growing health care needs of a population that is ageing and has rising rates of chronic disease.
The Kings Fund Report Shaping PCT Provider Services: The future for community health, published in April 2009, draws on a range of evidence about community services and health care service development. It aims to help PCTs to develop a service and organisational strategy that addresses key performance issues as well as to configure services to meet the changing needs of their local population.

Supporting page

Published April 2009, 56 pages