New high quality services for patients for arthritis patients
News,
31 March 2015

The recommendations are far-reaching and cover areas as diverse as patient and clinician involvement in commissioning, data collection, contracting processes, and funding and are addressed at the national and local bodies that can make a real difference in these areas. The key measures include:
- Improving the data that underpin commissioning decisions, by addressing the vast gaps in outpatient and community activity data for RMDs and promoting standardised coding for these conditions across the care pathway
- Putting patients at the heart of commissioning by investing in programmes to empower patient leaders at local and national level
- Strengthening requirements for clinician input into local commissioning
- Developing measurements and financial flows that properly reflect the needs of chronic complex care
- Reinforcing contracting requirements to ensure that plans for education, training and research are not overlooked in bids for new services
- Promoting a coordinated network approach to providing care across traditional healthcare boundaries
- Reviewing the incentives and levers to providers to improve and reduce variations in care.
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