Commissioning

Evidence-based practice and the use of information in state agency decision-making
ET Jennings Jr, JL Hall
Institute for Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations, 2009, 1st April

Policy options for integrating health and social care
C Ham
The Nuffield Trust for Research and Policy Studies in Health Services, April 2009
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Pay for performance: an overview of the literature
SE Greene, DB Nash
American Journal of Medical Quality, 2009, 24(2), pp140-163
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Doctors managing in primary care: An international focus
N Chambers, D Colin-Thomé
Journal of Management and Marketing in Healthcare, 2009, 2(1), pp28-43
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Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) payment framework
The key aim of the CQUIN framework is to support a shift towards the vision set out in High Quality Care for All, where quality is the organising principle. The framework helps make quality part of the commissioner-provider discussion everywhere. This site contains examples of existing quality schemes that were in operation prior to the introduction of the CQUIN payment framework, and will publish examples of new CQUIN schemes, as they develop.