How to ensure that quality is placed at the heart of the commissioning process.
Quality and commissioning are now taken to be synonymous. But before the NHS next stage review and world class commissioning turned attention to quality, Derbyshire County PCT had embarked on a quality commissioning agenda of its own. This article explains how the PCT put quality on a par with finance and performance in its commissioning activities and took a strategic approach to improving quality.
Boyd
Maggie
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Derbyshire County PCT.
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