Commissioning Services

Department of Health and other central agencies - General Guidance
A number of sites provide general guidance on commissioning:

• World Class Commissioning
• Primary Care Contracting
• The NHS institute for innovation and improvement
• The Improvement Foundation
• NICE commissioning guidance

Department of Health - Dermatology and Skin Surgery
A number of mandatory documents have been produced to aid in the commissioning of dermatology services and skin surgery in the community:

• 'Providing Care for Patients with Skin Conditions: Guidance and Resources for Commissioners'
• ‘Implementing care closer to home - convenient quality care for patients Parts 1-3'
• ‘Guidance and Competencies for the provision of services using GPs with Special Interests (GPwSI) - Dermatology and Skin Surgery'
• ‘18-week pathways for dermatology’

For more information on skin surgery please see the relevant section on this website.

Skin Cancer
The NICE document ‘Improving Outcomes for People with Skin Tumours including Melanoma’

Other documents on Commissioning
The PCDS has produced their own document which provides practical advise on setting up services for GPwSI:

• Practical advice for GPwSI - Please click here to open up the PCDS produced document