About us

Commissioning Health is a new and independent publication.  Supported by our sponsors BUPA Commissioning and NHS Alliance, Commissioning Health aims to promote information, debate, discussion and best practice about commissioning in the UK health economy.

Commissioning Health is written, edited and produced by Andy Cowper, freelance journalist and editor of Health Policy Insight.

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In the latest issue (Autumn / Winter 2008):

Guest editorial - Health Minister Ben Bradshaw on commissioning to fill the urgent care gap

 

British Society for Gastroenterology chief executive Tom Smith on a secondary perspective – what gastroenterologists would like to see in practice-based commissioning

 

Kings Fund chief economist Professor John Appleby on how to get commissioning working better: skills, data, subsidiarity and culture

 

Bupa Commissioning medical director Dr Henriette Coetzer on a commissioning checklist – ensuring you know your supplier, and vice versa

 

NHS Alliance chair Dr Michael Dixon GP on moving practice-based commissioning forwards as a solution and a priority

 

Independent consultant and national director of the PBC federation for NHS Alliance Julie Wood on the recipe for PBC

 

Rob Fitzpatrick, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and Carole Lawrence-Parr, Dorset PCT on commissioning innovation

 

Professor Alan Maynard of the University of York on how to reinvigorate practice-based commissioning – a tall order

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