GMCVO

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GMCVO Health Infrastructure Workshop 13th
September 2007 PCTs THE COMMISSIONING
CHALLENGE
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• KEY POINTS
• The work of the Association
• The commissioning challenge to PCTs
• Meeting the Challenge
• The role of the Voluntary Sector

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• The Association
• Established in 2004 unique!
• 10 Primary Care Trusts
• Coterminous with AGMA
• An ethos of collaboration
• Key objectives
• To support PCTs in sharing information and good
  practice
• To provide a focus for the development and
  reporting of joint work across the PCTs and
  reducing unnecessary duplication of effort
• To provide a properly constituted forum for
  issues where PCTs consider it beneficial to their
  own objectives to have a collective decision of
  the PCTS of Greater Manchester in the spirit of
  mutuality, or to address issues necessitating
  formal agreement by the PCTs of Greater
  Manchester

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• The commissioning challenge to PCTs

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THE AIM..
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THE CHALLENGE

• Understanding Service Needs
• Involving service users
• Understanding the Market
• Identifying ALL potential providers
• Involving providers in service design
• Rethinking commissioning procurement processes
• Commissioning for Health Well Being
• Commission the whole pathway
• Personalised Care
• Prevention

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THE ROLE OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR

• Providing diversity in the supply base
• Effective advocacy and engagement to inform needs
  assessment and commissioning specifications
• Providing earlier intervention to support
  prevention
• Clarifying the offer
• Becoming procurement ready

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The Association GMCVO
To embed voluntary/third sector service provision
into the Greater Manchester health agenda and
ensure the commissioning process is informed from
a voluntary sector perspective.