Using this Friend
Welcome to the first on-line edition of The Commissioning Friend for PCTs. This Friend maps the new world of commissioning. It has been designed to allow people with different interests in the issues to explore them in their own ways.
Click here to read more about the purpose of the Commissioning Friend.
Structure
We have broken the main narrative material down into a number of sections – click on the coloured tabs across the top to explore these, in any order you wish.
Within each section you can explore topics. See a map of sections and topics
Within each topic we give key links to other helpful material:
Other Features
You can download pdf file versions of each
- section
- resource guide
- case study
either to print, or to forward to colleagues.
We want this Friend to grow with PCTs’ increasing understanding of their commissioning role.
Submit a resource
You can share your experience, information, or case study – as a document or link - with other PCTs. Please use the submit a resource button to email us with details.
You can also comment using our discussion forum.
If you are a registered user you can also use the forums to upload documents to share with other users. To register click here.
We will use your contributions in a revised CD ROM edition of the Friend which we hope to release early in 2004.
Acknowledgements
NatPaCT would particularly like to thank Ian Tibbles, Neil Wilson and other colleagues at PACT Consultancy for the core research and text of this Friend.
We are also grateful to
- Pauline Johnson, Bebington and West Wirral PCT
- Rachel Magnani, Erewash PCT
- Alan Campbell, Salford PCT
- Sara Hayes and Sebastian Habibi, Department of Health
- Julia Ross, Paul Rice, Caroline Stanger, John Callaghan, and Andrew Donald from NatPaCT.
- Kevin Holdridge and Claire Louise Noonan for web development
...and the many other people in PCTs, SHAs and the Department who have contributed ideas, experience, advice and material.
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