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Integrated Commissioning: New Contexts, New Dilemmas, New Solutions?

Bob Hudson

Journal of Integrated Care

ISSN: 1476-9018

Article publication date: 4 February 2010

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Abstract

Ideas about joint commissioning between the NHS and social care have been around for a long time ‐ since at least the publication of Practical Guidance on Joint Commissioning for Project Leaders by the Department of Health in 1995, and stemming from the roots of joint planning and joint finance way back in the mid‐1970s. Achievements have generally not been spectacular, but the issue is now squarely back on the policy stage with a rebranding: ‘integrated commissioning’. This implies a shift from ad hoc and opportunistic partnering to something more systemic and long‐term. However, the policy context is now very different, and the scale of ambition hugely heightened. This article examines whether integrated commissioning is an idea whose time has come.

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Hudson, B. (2010), "Integrated Commissioning: New Contexts, New Dilemmas, New Solutions?", Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 11-19. https://doi.org/10.5042/jic.2010.0082

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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