Commissioning for carers

"Commissioning well for carers can:

• Reduce admissions to hospital and residential care.
• Reduce the costs of delays in transfers of care.
• Reduce carers’ need to access primary care as a result of their caring role.
• Reduce overall spending on care."

Commissioning for Carers: Key principles for Clinical Commissioning Groups
Carers Trust
July 2013

Read more here.

Read a summary from the Commissioning Elf here.