NHS England Direct Commissioning Policies

NHS England has published a number of interim generic policies, designed to ensure fair and consistent decision-making across its direct commissioning function.

The 14 policies cover all aspects of NHS England's direct commissioning responsibilities including specialised services primary care screening military and offender health. They set out NHS England's approach on a variety of funding issues including Individual Funding Requests; access to treatments for patients moving between different sets of commissioners and services providers and the process that NHS England will adopt for implementing guidance produced by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE).

The policies are being adopted on an interim basis to enable NHS England to carry out further engagement with patients carers and the public over the next 6-12 months in refining and agreeing final versions.

NHS England plans to bring together a steering group which will lead development of the policies working in partnership with a range of stakeholders. This group will test the principles on which the policies are based and will revise them where appropriate in order to make them more accessible.

The policies can be accessed here.

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