Healthcare commissioning inquiry continues
28 January 2010 (updated on 22 April 2010)
The Health Committee holds the third evidence session of its inquiry into Commissioning. Watch live at 10.00 am
Witnesses
10am
- John Parkes, Chief Executive, NHS Northamptonshire
- Julie Garbutt, Chief Executive, NHS Norfolk
11.15am
- Dr Pauline Brimblecombe, GP
- Maureen Donnelly, Chair, NHS Cambridge, and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Paul Zollinger-Read, Chief Executive, NHS Cambridge, and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Committee's 'Commissioning' inquiry is investigating:
- "World-Class Commissioning": what does this initiative tell us about how effective commissioning by PCTs is?
- The rationale behind commissioning: has the purchaser / provider split been a success and is it needed?
- Commissioning and "system reform": how does commissioning fit with Practice-based Commissioning, "contestability" and the quasi-market, and Payment by Results?
- Specialist commissioning
- Commissioning for the quality and safety of services