"Driving quality and value through mental health commissioning"
The Mental Health World Class Commissioning programme supports the development of innovation in mental health commissioning through collaboration, information exchange and partnerships with a number of national and local agencies.
The programme is one of six NMHDU core programmes and has been commissioned through the Department of Health to promote the development of World Class Commissioning (WCC) in mental health across the NHS and other service providers.
Content Domain
- Promoting Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention in Commissioning for Mental Health and Well Being
- Joint Commissioning
- Supporting the development of the mental health commissioning workforce
- Providing practical tools and guidance for mental health commissioners to use
- Supporting sytem reform agenda in mental health
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Seminar
Meeting the Challenge - Driving Quality and Productivity through Mental Health Commissioning
*Register your interest in attending this by submitting your details below
Deadline for Registration 15th March
25th March 2010
Chair: Dr Hugh Griffiths, Deputy National Clinical Director for Mental Health
Venue: The Grosvenor, 101 Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, London, SW1W0SJ
This interactive seminar will
•Take stock of progress towards delivering World Class Commissioning in Mental Health
•Support the introduction and use of a range of products and tools to assist commissioners
•Build a consensus on how commissioners can best meet the twin challenges of the Quality and Productivity agenda and New Horizons
Additional Articles
- New Commissioning for a new era, Mental Health Today, June 2009: Kieron Murphy, programme lead, describes its work to support commissioning.
- NSUN article on commissioning, see page 4 and 5 of the article
