Commissioning Skills for Clinicians

Clinical Commissioning Groups are facing great challenges in the transformation of services at a time when resources are scarce. We can help your local organisation now to develop its capacity and capability to prepare for the opportunities ahead.

Capability Building for Commissioning:

 

Clinicians are challenged with delivering an agenda of high quality and high impact at a time of major financial constraints, working to reduce unplanned care admissions, and achieving a shift from secondary to primary care in the management of long term and other conditions. All of this will take place within a context of expanded plurality of supply, and contracting complexity.

 

At a time when commissioning is at the heart of the NHS, it has never been more important to support professionals to develop their commissioning skills. Hope Street Centre has developed a CPD accredited essential skills programme for clinicians to build capability and leadership in commissioning.

 

 

A Professional Development Programme:

 

This is a unique professional development opportunity for commissioning professionals, focussing on key skill areas:

 

Action Learning provides an opportunity to develop skills and knowledge within the context of action upon a real situation or problem in the local area.

 

The technique was pioneered and researched by Professor R Revans, and is consistent with the evidence base on effective adult learning methods.

 

An illustrative outline is given below, based on eight one day sessions, conducted two or three weeks apart. Learning sets will contain a maximum of 12 participants. Each day will be planned with participants in advance, to meet their own priorities – with expert inputs, learning resource packs and e-learning through a Virtual Learning Environment, and facilitated by skilled set-leaders.

 

At the centre of the programme there will be the opportunity for each participant to bring a problem or change issue important to their local commissioning strategy.

 

The individual will work on this issue for the duration of the programme, drawing upon the resources of the group – facilitators, participants, experts, learning materials – to work on a solution and actions. The actions taken as a result will benefit the organisation as well as the individual, as an outcome of the programme.

 

Days will be structured to allow the development of learning and skills outcomes in key skills areas, while building in time to work on the nominated issues.

 

Action Learning is a tried and tested method of management and organisation development. The process involves people working in small groups, tackling important organisational issues or problems and learning from their attempts to change things.

 

Perhaps the easiest way to think about Action Learning is to see it as consisting of four interactive elements:

 

Illustrative Content

Session 1 Introduction to action learning Identification of individual action learning priorities	Theme-leading in complex environments; Introduction to E-learning and additional learning materials, computer demos, sources of knowledge Commissioning policy context Commissioning models: commissioning cycle and health needs intelligence framework High impact commissioning gains Action Planning Reflection
Session 2 Themed learning objectives> Action learning review; individual action learning priorities	Theme-new policy imperatives, implications for the commissioning process Key drivers : Choice and market forces – mapping the market Patient choice Payment by results Plurality of supply Foundation hospitals Action Planning Reflection
Session 3 Themed learning objectives> Action learning review; individual action learning priorities	Theme – Reforming Funding Flows: Financial challenges to achieving service redesign PbR and costing out of hospital care Action Planning Reflection
Session 4 Themed learning objectives> Action learning review; individual action learning priorities	Theme - Primary Care: Contracting for Primary and Out of Hospital Care Long Term Conditions: achieving service re-design Action Planning Reflection
Session 5 Themed learning objectives> Action learning review; individual action learning priorities	Theme- Specialist Commissioning: Models for Commissioning and Contracting Specialist Care, Mental Health Commissioning Action Planning Reflection
Session 6 Themed learning objectives> Action learning review; individual action learning priorities	Theme-Health Needs Assessment/Mapping Health Needs through informatics Determining the commissioning ‘footprint’ The Health Needs Intelligence Function National vs. Local Priorities Action Planning Reflection
Session 7 Themed learning objectives> Action learning review; individual action learning priorities	Theme-Commissioning problems & problem solving – resolving dilemmas in commissioning Change management Influence and negotiation Action Planning Reflection
Session 8 Sharing the learning	Presentations of outcomes/actions arising from individual focus issues/action plan review  Decision on dissemination Reflection – individual action plans for further career and learning development

 

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