Regional commissioning provides scope to build local relationships that can drive change and influence the system to deliver what communities want.
Community benefits from localised approach
- Alignment of services with identified localised needs.
- Greater focus on localised regional health outcomes.
- Focuses the health system to care within communities, adopting a whole of system regional approach.
- Local and regional health data applied to better understand the local population needs.
- Builds a health and community care system suited to specific local needs.
- Facilitates quicker and easier ‘on the ground’ change .
- Allows for localised support and monitoring.
“Regional commissioning brings important benefits compared with traditional national or state contracting.”
Workforce and model development
- Influences local providers to move towards best practice in meeting regional health and community care needs.
- Invests in the capacity of local providers, particularly for hard-to reach groups.
- Considers the broadest practical range of potential local providers throughout the region.
- Where appropriate, considers provider potential to overcome market failure and lack of diversity (alternative arrangements such as consortia).
- Better value for money achieved through open, transparent, regionally relevant commissioning processes.
- Collaborative governance.