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Commissioning is dead? Long live…?
Great to see this good sense from Martin Routledge at Social Care Futures, tracing the line from Donna Hall’s ‘commissioning is dead’ tweet:
Commissioning is dead – the deliverers in Council, NHS & communities work better together & build trust when they can just build a model together then just do it instead of spending months or years writing bloody commissioning intentions & contracts – phew I feel better now 😀
— ✨ Prof Donna Hall, CBE ✨ She/Her (@ProfDonnaHall) May 29, 2020
…through to the excellent work SCiE, TLAP, Shared Lives, and Social Care Futures are doing (featured here previously), and through to our own key faculty member and fellow, Richard Field’s book on Asset Based Commissioning (with Clive Miller). As I keep saying on these pieces- we don’t care what you call it – but the answer to bad commissioning is, in fact, good commissioning – the kind we and Richard have been seeking to teach and get support for capacity and capability-building for the last nine years. Commissioning is dead – long live commissioning!
Here’s the piece, well worth a read: