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Chapter 3. Commissioning with Service Users and Carers

Added on 18/03/2008
Updated on 25/03/2008

3.1 Papers

3.11 Direct payments and social care commissioning: the challenges for local authorities

by Janet Leece (Published 21 July 2006)

3.12 Involving people who use services in the commissioning process

by Nigel Walker (Published 11 December 2006)

3.13 Well-being and choice for older people - how can commissioners promote this?

by Charles Patmore (Published 23 March 2006)

3.2 Cases Studies

3.21 Service user involvement in tendering

by Nicolas Maxwell (Published 30 May 2006)

3.22 Community participation in the commissioning process - the work of the Healthy Communities Collaborative

by Melanie Lawless & Jenny Knowles (Published 21 July 2006)

Direct payments and social care commissioning: The challenges for local authorities (Commissioning eBook 2006)
This paper looks at the challenges direct payments may present to local authority commissioners, such as planning for the whole community and balancing financial flexibility with market stability.
Involving people who use services in the commissioning process
Well-being and choice for older people - how can commissioners promote this?
Community participation in the commissioning process - the work of the Healthy Communities Collaborative
Service user involvement in tendering

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