A network has been launched to broaden professional influence on local commissioning.
The Health Care Professionals’ (HCP) Commissioning Network brings together local and national clinical leaders from nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry and the allied health professions to discuss and debate how clinician led commissioning can be further developed to include the insights and experience of a wide range of professionals, alongside GPs.
“One of the biggest challenges for GP commissioners is being able to undertake robust needs assessment,” said network member and National Lead for Practice Based Commissioning at the DH, Dr James Kingsland.
“This is where the insights from other healthcare professionals who see different people or who see our patients in a different light can be invaluable.
“We need to embrace an inclusive model of commissioning and a broad range of health professionals to make GP commissioning the best it can be.”
Click here for further information on the network. Click here to read the network's letter to the Health Service Journal, 22 June 2010.
