Royal College of General Practitioners Commissioning Competency Framework

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has published its Competencies for Clinically-led Commissioning.

The Health Library offers resources to support you in the RCGP Commissioning Competencies, and in Evidence based practice. Evidence based practice is particularly significant for Clinically led commissioning, one of the Framework’s 4 Principles, and for Competency 3, Delivering quality services and improving productivity. Through the Health Library and the Outreach Librarians you can:

  • access books and journals to help develop your management and leadership skills (stock can be brought to your workplace)
  • request a literature search: we save you time by searching specialist health databases and reputable websites to your deadline
  • request training, tailored to your specific needs, to help you find relevant evidence more quickly and effectively
  • keep up-to-date with new developments from the Department of Health, NICE and others, using our current awareness bulletins

Details of Library services and resources relevant to specific competencies are listed below:

Commissioning competencies

 

How we can help you

1. Bringing clinical focus and adding value

1.2 Setting priorities

1.3 Designing Services

1.4 Shaping demand

2. Engaging with patients, carers and communities

2.2 Evaluating Population Needs

2.3 Protecting and Promoting Health

You can access the Library’s books and journals on:

or search our NHS Journals list for ejournals

Additional items can be requested from other Libraries by inter-library loan.

Use our Health Inequalities Bulletin (every 2 months) to keep up-to-date.

You can request a literature search for qualitative and quantitative data, and evidence, on:

  • effective ways to improve patient access to services, and outcomes
  • understanding patterns and trends in demand, and shaping demand
  • the “impact of different options on safety, quality, efficiency and patient experience”

to support the commissioning, design and evaluation of services.

3. Delivering quality services and improving productivity

3.2 Promoting research & development

3.3 Continual quality improvement

3.4 Promoting sustainability

3.5 Supporting / promoting education and training

 

We provide easy access to high quality evidence “at the point of need,” for commissioning, patient care, and quality improvement. You can request literature searches on clinical or management topics (including sustainability). We also offer training in finding the evidence more efficiently, at a time and place to suit you.  

1. Bringing clinical focus and adding value

1.4 Shaping demand (with partner organisations)

2. Engaging with patients, carers and communities

2.1 Partnering with Patients and the Public

4. Meeting organisational, governance and financial responsibilities

4.1 Business Leadership

4.3 Contracting

4.4 Governance

5. Working and commissioning collaboratively

5.2 Partnering with Local Authorities

5.3 Sharing commissioning

5.4 Partnering with Providers

You can access the Library’s books and journals on:

Additional items can be requested from other Libraries by inter-library loan.

Use our monthly Clinical Effectiveness bulletin, and/or request training to set up personalised alerts, to keep up-to-date with the latest evidence for high quality patient care and strong clinical governance.

1. Bringing clinical focus and adding value

1.1 Engaging professionals

2. Engaging with patients, carers and communities

2.1 Partnering with Patients and the Public

2.4 Managing Media and Communication

6. Leading individually and collectively

6.1 Managing Self

6.2 Leading a Team

6.3 Setting a Vision

6.4 Leading Change

You can access the Library’s books and journals on:

or search our NHS Journals list for ejournals

Additional items can be requested from other Libraries by inter-library loan.

 

Competencies specific to Commissioning Leaders, Directors and Teams

 

How we can help you

3. Delivering quality services and improving productivity

3.1 Horizon Scanning

4. Meeting organisational, governance and financial responsibilities

4.2 Market shaping

Use our monthly Clinical Effectiveness bulletin, and/or request training to set up personalised alerts, to keep up-to-date with developments in healthcare and commissioning.

You can request searches on gaps in service, “opportunities to draw on the ability of the third sector and communities themselves to meet public needs,” and “promoting health and reducing avoidable intervention.”

 

6. Leading individually and collectively

6.4 Leading Change		 You can request literature searches for “data and expert opinion” to “inform the creation of a vision for commissioning,” and/or training to help you find this more efficiently.

Competencies specific to Practice members

 

How we can help you

2. Engaging with patients, carers and communities

2.1 Partnering with Patients and the Public

5. Working and commissioning collaboratively

5.1 Forging Partnerships

We offer training and help, tailored to your needs, in finding information for patients, and finding information about communicating with patients. Training is given at a time and place to suit you.

Online health promotion resources are listed at:

Health Promotion & Public Health subject links page

Patient Information subject links page

Outreach Librarians

The NHS Outreach Team The Outreach Library and Information Service is for NHS staff working in the community in North Staffordshire, including primary care or Combined Healthcare staff, or NHS partners (including social care). You can contact the team via Clare Powell

Telephone: 0300 123 1535 ext/FeatureNet 8429 (answerphone available) or 01782 679564

Email: clareh.powell@northstaffs.nhs.uk   

For more information see your local intranet: NHS Combined Healthcare Intranet :: NHS North Staffs and Stoke-on-Trent Intranet