title: How to ensure that quality is placed at the heart of the commissioning process.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Derbyshire County PCT.
authors.forename: Maggie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boyd
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom