Commissioning and Contracting under PbR and PBC
Commissioning under Payment by Results (PbR) and Practice Based Commissioning (PBC) is a new endeavour sponsored by the Department of Health. Changing the traditional activity based commissioning practices to performance and outcomes based strategies require:
- Model contract development and customization to the local environment
- Training of commissioning agents in using
- performance and outcomes data to select providers,
- negotiating contracts with data
- Changing provider behaviour to maximize contract performance in terms of patient outcomes, satisfaction and cost
- Networking with international and national best performers in contract negotiations and maintenance monitoring
The above is offered with options to video teleconferencing with commissioning agents that have gone through this environment change of this subject and have the experience of the ‘Do’s’ and ‘Don’ts' of this subject.