Further resources

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This section pulls together a selection of publications and websites designed to support physiotherapy managers and teams wanting to understand more about key government policies, NHS commissioning and how to gather effective business data and evidence.

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The information is arranged in three parts:

On this website

Making the business case publication download

CSP members can download a free copy of Making the Business Case: A physiotherapist’s guide to commissioning. If you would like to order a hard copy, please contact our Enquiry Handling Unit by phone 020 7306 6666 or by email: enquiries@csp.org.uk

Making Physiotherapy Count

Making Physiotherapy Count offers valuable collection of insights into physiotherapy best practice, with details of 22 examples of innovative musculoskeletal services across the United Kingdom, alongside contact information. Compiled as part of the Society’s Sharing Effective Physiotherapy Practice Project (SEPP), it showcases work from addressing back pain to the promotion of physical activity.

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (2004). Making Physiotherapy Count: A range of quality assured services. London: CSP. Full download and further details.

Payment by Results

The Payment by Results workbook offers a handy guide to the new tariff-based funding for NHS hospital services in England, Payment by Results, and explores its implications for allied health professionals and how it might affect the practice and service delivery of physiotherapy.

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (2005). Payment by results: practical support for allied health professionals. London: CSP. Full download and further details.

Practice Based Commissioning

This concise information paper summarises the main implications of the government’s policy to put healthcare commissioning at the heart of ensuring high-quality, value-for-money services for local patient populations, and analyses how it might affect the physiotherapy profession.

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (2006). Practice Based Commissioning and other changes in English Primary Care: a simple guide for physiotherapists. London: CSP Full download and further details.

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Department of Health

The Department of Health publishes a wide range of print and online resources. See the Department of Health website for further details about the following documents.

Care and resource utilisation

Care and resource utilisation, with its focus on giving patients the right treatment in the right place at the right time, will be an important consideration for commissioners. This publication lays out how they can identify which services should be redesigned and how.

Department of Health (2006). Care and resource utilisation: ensuring appropriateness of care. UK: Crown Copyright.

Health reform in England

This important paper summarises key aspects of the government’s healthcare reforms and their rationale, with a focus on NHS commissioning. It sets out the framework for several key changes designed to strengthen commissioning and ensure it drives health reform, improves health and healthcare and secures financial health for the NHS.

Department of Health (2006). Health reform in England: update and commissioning framework. UK: Crown Copyright

Our health, our care, our say

This wide-ranging government white paper sets out a vision of how healthcare services might work with other bodies to provide care for patients closer to where they live. Based on widespread consultation with patients and other key stakeholders, designed to explore what they really want from the NHS, this is a radical vision of continuing importance for those working in care.

Department of Health (2006). Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services. UK: Crown Copyright

Payment by Results in 2007/08

This document confirms arrangements for the Payment by Results funding system during the financial year 2007/08, describing it as a ’transparent, rules-based system for paying trusts’, and lays out a vision that the new funding system ‘will reward efficiency, support patient choice and diversity and encourage activity for sustainable waiting time reductions”

DH (2006). Payment by results in 2007/08. London: DH

Practice Based Commissioning

This publication sets out guidelines for the practical implementation of practice-based commissioning and addresses some the challenging issues associated with the policy.

Department of Health (2006). Practice based commissioning: practical implementation. UK: Crown Copyright.

The NHS in England: the operating framework for 2007/08

This important document outlines the framework within which NHS commissioners In England are required to work during 2007/08, and sets out four key development priorities for action and funding: the 18-week wait, reducing rates of healthcare-acquired infections, reducing health inequalities and promoting health and well-being, and financial health.

DH (2006). The NHS in England: the operating framework for 2007/08. London: DH

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Additional websites

18 weeks website

The achievement of a maximum wait of 18 weeks from GP referral to the start of treatment for patients is one of the four national health priorities for the NHS in England in 2007/08. This NHS website provides information designed to ease implementation, share best practice and promote wider understanding of this important UK-wide healthcare priority.
View the website: www.18weeks.nhs.uk

Commissioning eBook

Developed by the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP), the website is designed to act as a resource to improve the commissioning of community services. It includes a variety of articles, case studies and interactive media to help explain commissioning and its impact on the provision of services.
View the website: www.cat.csip.org.uk/index

Commissioning News

Published six times a year, this newsletter contains updates on policy changes as well as notification of commissioning-related events. The website also provides notification of tenders and jobs as well as access to past editions of the newsletter.
View the website: www.commissioningnews.com

Integrated Services Improvement Program (ISIP)

The NHS Integrated Service Improvement Programme (ISIP) is designed to help healthcare professionals plan and deliver change in an integrated way, offering guidance, tools and techniques to support joined-up working across local health and social care communities, and ideas on how to plan and deliver change for maximum benefit to patients and staff.
View the website: www.isip.nhs.uk/guidance/index_html

NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

Dedicated to spreading new ways of working across the NHS, this website features products, learning and leadership sections as well as details of events to further your knowledge of the changing NHS environment.
View the website: www.institute.nhs.uk

NHS Networks

With a section dedicated to commissioning for clinicians and managers, this website includes a learning-from-practice section with services from around the UK that have taken an innovative approach to commissioning and demand management, alongside networks designed to help healthcare professionals across the UK share their expertise.
View the website: www.networks.nhs.uk

The King’s Fund

The website of this independent healthcare think-tank provides a wealth of resources on specific healthcare topics, as well as information on policy developments and events, and has a section dedicated to commissioning: www.kingsfund.org.uk/health_topics/commissioning.html . It also provides useful publications and articles that help to interpret high-level NHS changes.
View the website: www.kingsfund.org.uk

References

  • Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (2004) Making Physiotherapy Count: A Range of Quality-assured Services. Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, London.
  • Department of Health (2006a) Health Reform in England: Update and Commissioning Framework. Department of Health, London.
  • Department of Health (2006b) The NHS in England: Operating Framework for 2007/08. Department of Health, London. Department of Health (2000) National Service
  • Framework for Coronary Heart Disease. Department of Health, London.
  • Scottish Executive (2005) Building a Health Service Fit for the Future. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.
  • Welsh Assembly Government (2005) Designed for Life – A World Class Health Service for Wales.Welsh Assembly Government, Cardiff.
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This text on this page was last updated on 10 May 2007.