E-learning: Introduction to commissioning for providers

"Introduction to commissioning for providers charts the changes to the commissioning process, introduces the building blocks of commissioning and explains how they can be used to provide better services."

This cost provides 1 hour CPD and costs £25 for 6 months access.

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Clinicians in management

"Managers' professional background may be both a resource and constraint, and also determine the influence strategies they use."

Clinicians in management: a qualitative study of managers' use of influence strategies in hospitals
I Spehar, JC Frich, LE Kjekshus
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:251

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Reforming the NHS from within

"Large-scale structural reforms under successive governments have proved a major distraction and should be avoided in future."

Reforming the NHS from within: beyond hierarchy, inspection and markets
C Ham
The King's Fund
June 2014

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Skilled for improvement?

"The Learning Communities Initiative aimed to explore the use of organisational techniques such as learning communities and communities of practice. It set out to work with selected improvement groups in the NHS to help them learn collectively about proven improvement methods (‘improvement science’) and to examine how the learning process – and hence the enhancement of quality – could be better deployed in future improvement initiatives."

Skilled for improvement?
The Health Foundation
March 2014

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