Securing Best Value for NHS Patients
Proposals for regulations to protect patients’ interests by ensuring that commissioners always deliver best value are being consulted on.
Detail
The consultation sets out proposals for requirements to:
- ensure good procurement practice by commissioners, including requirements to act transparently
- avoid discrimination and purchase services from the providers best placed to meet patients’ needs
- ensure that commissioners enable patients to exercise their rights to choose as set out in the NHS Constitution
- prohibit commissioners from taking actions that restrict competition where this is against patients’ interests
- ensure that commissioners manage conflicts of interest and that particular interests do not influence their decision-making
Documents
Securing Best Value for NHS Patients: Requirements for commissioners to adhere to good procurement practice and protect patient choiceapplication/pdfSecuring Best Value for NHS Patients Annex: Analytical narrative and call to evidence for proposed changes to commissioning regulationsapplication/pdfSecuring the Best Value for Patients: Consultation Responseapplication/pdf