Do you know how to do NHS Commissioning & Planning?
The NHS needs to produce the most health benefit from limited resources in a context of increasing demand. This series of workshops provides essential knowledge and skills for the technical aspects of demand and performance management.

Who should attend?
These workshops are relevant to a wide range of NHS and Local Authority staff including GPs, medical and non-medical directors and managers, public health specialists and health information analysts.

Learning Objectives:


    Do you know how to do NHS Commissioning & Planning?
    The NHS needs to produce the most health benefit from limited resources in a context of increasing demand. This series of workshops provides essential knowledge and skills for the technical aspects of demand and performance management.

    Who should attend?
    These workshops are relevant to a wide range of NHS and Local Authority staff including GPs, medical and non-medical directors and managers, public health specialists and health information analysts.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Understand how to commission and plan health care
    • Be able to differentiate the relationship between need, demand, health care activity and outcomes in healthcare systems
    • Understand various analytical techniques for production commissioning/planning informations, and managing demand and performance
    • Understand performance measurement: need, demand activity throughput and outcomes, including population specific rates and healthcare facility specific rates
    • Be aware of the issues in GP led commissioning
    • Be able to apply some of these techniques in case studies in managing demand and performance
    • Understand what demand and performance management can and cannot achieve
    • Appreciate decision making processes in a complex group and the role of principles and ethics
    • Understand how to approach health care priority setting (rationing)
    • Understand the under-pinning concepts of health economics, information and evidence on costs and benefit.

    Workshops:

    For more information on this course and how the content can be adapted to suit the needs of your organisation, or you as an individual, please email enquiries@phast.org.uk.

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