National Programmes of Care and Clinical Reference Groups

There are 74 Clinical Reference Groups which are clustered around five national Programmes of Care:

1. Internal medicine
2. Cancer and blood
3. Mental health
4. Trauma
5. Women and children.

These which bring together services in functional groupings, and more can be found out here.

Value based clinical commissioning of elective surgical care

"The aim of this report has been to make recommendations for consideration by the NHS Operations Board with regard to effective commissioning of elective surgical procedures."

Right Care Elective Surgery Project: Phase 1 report: Value based clinical commissioning of elective surgical care: emerging views of commissioners and surgeons and production of high value care pathways
M Gray, S Swift, M Suleman, N Beasley, D Hakes, M Qualie, A Mitchell, S Dutch
Right Care
November 2011

Read more here.