Public Health White Paper on Healthier Choice

Lord Darzi's interim summary of the next stage review

DH website summarising the Health reform agenda.

National service frameworks (NSFs) are long term strategies for improving specific areas of care.

Designed to help local NHS staff shape services around the needs of their local communities.

The DH website for Our health, our care, our say White Paper.

This DH website contains policy documents and guidance including Local Involvement Networks and the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007

Front page that leads to Policy Guidance & Toolkits, WCC, PBC, Commissioning Specialised Services and Social Enterprise

This DH website provides documents for commissioners, describing techniques to help identify areas where services can be redesigned.

This site leads to guidance on specialised commissioning for rarer conditions

Set of commissioning guides

This DH website provides information about social enterprises.

Leads to vision, competencies, assurance systems and support framework

FESC is a means that NHS organisations (effectively PCTs and SHAs) can use to bring in support for their commissioning activities, using independent organisations with pre-assessed skills in different aspects of the commissioning cycle

Dentistry in Primary Care

GP Equitable Access Programme

Eye care in Primary Care

Pharmacy Services in Primary Care

DH website leading to guidance, tools, surveys and case studies

Primary Care Commissioning site providing key source of latest news and developments in primary care

The standard NHS contracts for acute hospital, mental health, community and ambulance services and supporting guidance

Register a company profile

Strategic supply management and procurement of medicines for use in secondary care

For consumables and clinical goods

Office of Government Commerce main advice site for procurement

To advertise under OJEU

Inform OJEU of a contract award using the contract award notice

For low value contracting opportunities in government

The Commissioning Zone is a portal for clinicians, managers and anyone else involved in commissioning. It brings together in one place the best sources and resources, to save time and promote sharing of useful information.

NHS Networks provides free web space and a directory of networks and communities of interest in the NHS and beyond. It provides tools to set up and manage virtual networks, message boards and document folders.

This site for NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement that supports the NHS to transform healthcare.