The problem of growing demand for urgent care continues. There have been overall improvements in urgent and emergency care performance but there is wide variation in performance in NHS South of England in both organisations and local systems and signs of decline nationally. This report brings together the key findings ... and This research was carried out by The King's Fund for NHS South of England.
In this report, we focus on what needs to be done to strengthen commissioning in the NHS, through an analysis of the problems with current commissioning arrangements. We begin by examining what is meant by ‘commissioning’ in the English NHS.