Commissioning

PLANNING, CONTRACTING, DELIVERING & MONITORING

Commissioning and planning for any kind of service involves a diverse range of activities and skills.  At its most fundamental, commissioning embraces understanding need, planning, contracting, delivering, monitoring within finite resources and managing a conflict on priorities and resources.  

In-Form Solutions are experienced at creating and delivering effective and imaginative commissioning strategies, programme and plans which meet the needs of the local health and social care communities and focuses on patients' and residents needs, all within tight financial constraints. We have extensive experience of international commissioning as well as the NHS and private sector commissioning, which help us to find new and imaginative ways of delivering services focused on the end user.

In-Form Solutions are able to support you by assisting to:

• Assess health need within the community together with the the emerging trends.
• Review, evaluate, inform, redesign and improve the current service provision and look for new alternatives.
• Support the commissioning for value reviews and seek variation and develop and implement a local strategy based on both best practice and innovation.
• Develop, write and agree service specifications and supporting with the procurement process.
• Evaluate schemes and programmes.
• Undertake an "Out of Hospital Strategy" and integrate and work with clinicians, providers and other commissioners throughout the whole health economy or system.
• Develop new innovative models of care and support such preventative strategies and home and self care.
• Developing new operating models such as build vs. buy analysis.
• Work within regional Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP's).
• Support an Outcome Based Commissioning strategy.
• Support with Planned & Urgent Care, Mental Health, Community Care and Primary Care.
• Support the contracting process including contract negotiation and completion. 
• Monitor activity, expenditure and quality together with assessing levels of risk through dashboard scorecard definition.
• Engage with providers to deliver high quality services, cost effectively

Flexible, independent & cost effective

We at In-Form Solutions provide hands on expert resources to drive forward any agreed initiatives, to work in conjunction with commissioners, patients, service managers and provider organisations. Our team consists of Health Economy Finance specialists, Commissioners, Nursing Specialists, Project Managers all having experience of planning and implementing successful commissioning strategies.