Commissioning for Health and Well-Being: An Introduction

Commissioning is now a key task for health and social care — and yet policy aspirations often outstrip the infrastructure needed to support commissioners as they take difficult decisions about future services and to make commissioning a career of choice for future leaders. While commissioning was important under New Labour, it seems set to be even more fundamental now as commissioners think about future services in an era of austerity.

Against this background, this is the first comprehensi...