The Department of Health has not published the World Class Commissioning (WCC) assurance results this year. As a result the PCT Network at the NHS Confederation has analysed results across the country as we felt it was important that the hard work of PCTs over the last year to improve their commissioning is recognised.
We have produced a report which analyses aggregate PCT scores on governance and the WCC competencies and have also issued a press release to publicise this report. We are still missing reports from 5 PCTs which have not yet published their results, but we will update the report when these are available.
The analysis shows significant improvement since year one of the WCC assurance process, and reflects well on the progress that boards and staff in PCTs across the county have made over the past 18 months.
We have not published individual PCT scores as some of these are still not in the public domain, and we did not wish to create a league table. However we understand that the Health Service Journal is planning to publish a league table of the results, similar to last year.
We expect this to be the final year of the WCC assurance system, but we have made the point in our report that the competencies set out in the WCC programme will still need to be delivered in the new system of commissioning set out in the health White Paper. However this does not mean that each GP consortium will need to have the full range of competencies.
Members can read our report on World Class Commissioning Assurance results. You can also read our press release on this report.
Further information
For further information on this report or for information on our work programme, please contact Martin Panther at martin.panther@nhsconfed.org.