Outcome Based Commissioning

7^th-11^th September 2015

At the beginning of the week I was working on a project with the other placement student at the CCG, Katie, and we were asked to put together an Outcomes Based Commissioning process that the CCG can follow as it is now moving towards an outcomes based approach to commissioning.  Outcome Based Commissioning is a new approach to commissioning health and social care services in the UK. It is a way of paying for health and care services based on the outcomes that are important to the people using them not simply organisational activities or performance. The process we designed illustrated the pathway from identifying the problem in the current system to service design and agreeing outcome measurements.  This was a really exciting project to be working on as it is a new approach for the CCG to take in regards to commissioning as there are not many other CCG’s in the UK currently adopting this way of commissioning.   

Also this week I attended the monthly Care Professionals Group (CPG) that takes place at the CCG.  For this meeting I was in charge of completing the administrative duties including taking the minutes. I was quite nervous taking the minutes as I had never really done this before and I was afraid I would miss some of the vital information that was discussed. However once I was in the meeting I felt more comfortable taking the minutes and after reviewing them with another member of staff, I was assured that I had collected all of the important and relevant information required.

Finally this week I also continued with the Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) project I have been working on. I have been carrying out some research into the other workstreams that are involved within the Caring Together programme; General Practice and Community Based Coordinated Care(CBCC) and identifying whether there are any overlaps in the specifications that have been written in relation to ACSC. As the other workstreams have been up and running for a while now we wanted to identify any overlaps in the workstreams  before getting underway with the Acute Workstream.