The focus of personalisation has been on supporting people in community settings, more needs to done to support people who are working to make personalisation happen in care homes for older people.
Anyplace council's mental health commissioners have always understood the importance of quality assessments to check the quality of providers and their services: "We have always had a strong focus...
Anytown council's social care commissioning manager wanted to work more closely with people who use services throughout the commissioning process. She knew that previous commissioning work had not involved...
NHS Wakefield District and Wakefield Council's Joint Public Health Unit piloted an asset and co-production approach as part of the programme reviewing their Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). ...
Council officers in Localtown were asked to develop a Market Position Statement for adult social care and support. It needed to be developed and agreed quite quickly. Council officers did not feel that...
Three neighbouring councils in an urban area pooled their budgets for day care. Commissioners created the new service specification by combining elements of the previous three local contracts. Information...
Commissioners in Everytown needed to re-commission a failing mental health day service. Previous day service contracts had been focused on the activities and outputs that the service had to provide but...