Practice Based Commissioning
13th December 2005 Immarsat, London , EC1Y

Memorandum submitted by NHS Alliance : Examination of Witnesses
House of Commons, Minutes of Evidence
Thursday 3 November 2005
Taken before Health Changes Select Committee “Changes to Primary Care Trusts” In front of Witnesses including Dr Michael Dixon

Commissioning a Patient Led NHS
“This brief document builds on the NHS Improvement Plan and Creating a Patient-Led NHS. Its focus is on creating step-change in the way services are commissioned by front-line staff, to reflect patient choices.”

Speech by Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Health
Clinical leadership: a new partnership approach.
11th October 2005: New Health Network
“Let me start by acknowledging that these are challenging times for people working in health services – not just in Britain, but in almost every developed country. I hear constantly from staff who feel that too much is being changed, too fast, and who long just to be left alone to get on with their job.”

Commissioning a Patient-led NHS
6 th October 2005
National Survey of primary care trust PEC chairs carried out in conjunction with Health Service Journal.

Practice Based Commissioning
13th December 2005 Immarsat, London , EC1Y

Payment by Results
1 February 2006 Burlington Hotel, Birmingham

Speech by Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Health
Clinical leadership: a new partnership approach.
11th October 2005, New Health Network
“Let me start by acknowledging that these are challenging times for people working in health services – not just in Britain, but in almost every developed country. I hear constantly from staff who feel that too mu ch is being changed, too fast, and who long just to be left alone to get on with their job.”

Trusts welcome DoH flexibility
27 th October 2005 , Health Service Journal, Volume 115 No. 5979 Page 6
“Primary care trust chief executives have welcomed signs of government flexibility in their approach to primary care provision.”

Speech by Lord Warner, Minister of State for NHS Delivery (Lords) The Challenge and Vision of Commissioning a Patient Led NHS 1 November 2005, Department of Health
“I am delighted to be here this afternoon to talk about an issue – commissioning – that I think has been around for two decades in the public services but which within the NHS has not delivered its full potential.”

Practice Based Commissioning: Promoting Clinical Engagement
Department of Health
15 th December 2004

Case Study 2 - Strategic Population Health Planning
Birmingham and Black Country Strategic Health Authority
6 th December 2005 , NHS National Modernisation Agency