Primary care co-commissioning

“Next steps towards primary care co-commissioning” – NHS England’s latest thinking around primary care co-commissioning.

The document sets out the functions, governance arrangements and opportunities, potential benefits and risks of each of the three proposed co-commissioning models.

• Greater involvement in primary care decision making – “an invitation to CCGs to collaborate more closely with their area teams”.
• Joint commissioning arrangements – enables one or more CCGs to assume responsibility for jointly commissioning primary care medical services withthe option to pool funding for investment.
• Delegated commissioning arrangements – an opportunity for CCGs to assume full responsibility for commissioning general practice services using a standardised model of delegation.