COMMISSIONING SUPPORT
Kevin Skinner and partners bring a wealth of specialist knowledge and experience in public service commissioning in the NHS and local government. We provide consulting and interim management support directly or through selected agencies; our services can be accessed through frameworks to make resourcing and procurement simple when needed.
We specialise in:
- Joint and integrated commissioning in NHS and council services
- World Class Commissioning competencies in NHS
- Population needs – commissioning for public health and wellbeing
- Practice Based Commissioning national, shared and local priorities
- Integrated commissioning of ECM outcomes through Children’s Trusts
Our areas of expertise include:
- Markets for care services – structure, behaviour and development
- Innovative procurement methods, including collaborative frameworks
- Franchising projects – between council services, and health trusts
- Self-directed support (SDS), choice, personalisation and personal budgets
- Service redesign and specification in mental health and children’s services
We can fuse three complimentary approaches:
- strategic, population needs-based in the NHS
- purchasing and individual service planning in adult social care
- integrated processes and governance in children’s services
