The programme is aligned with the World Class Commissioning Assurance Framework. It directly supports the delivery of ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Say’ and ‘Our NHS, Our Future’, with its focus on transforming the commissioning of Community and Primary Care Services. The programme gives commissioners the framework to create real momentum and change, around the development of their core business.

Starting with an evaluation of commissioning capabilities, the programme then supports the development of strategies that seek to stimulate the creation of a contestable Community and Primary Services provider market and then for procuring and contracting with this market. The programme is designed to encourage collaborative working with the PCT’s in-house Provider Arm, so that the Provider Arm becomes a vibrant player in the local healthcare market.

The programme is delivered through hands-on project and programme management support, with PUK acting in a ‘critical friend’ capacity and with its delivery partners, working shoulder-to-shoulder with commissioners. This approach is designed for maximum transfer of skills and capabilities back into the PCT.

PUK is currently looking for PCT Commissioners to join the Programme and be at the vanguard of this increasingly important and developing area of Commissioning.

If you would like more information about PUK’s Commissioning Programme, please contact 
public.services@partnershipsuk.org.uk or call 020 7273 8056.