The Third Sector Commissioning Task Force report
This Department of Health report sets out practical advice for PCTs on how to make the most of voluntary, community and charity organisations when commissioning local services. The Third Sector Commissioning Task Force report also offers tips to local organisations on how to successfully bid for PCT contracts.
Third sector organisations, such as charities and social enterprises, are seen as having high quality, personalised services that can add to the existing health and social care available to local communities. Providing a diversity of services closer to people’s homes is a key objective of the Department's Providing a diversity of services closer to people’s homes is one of the key objectives in the recent White Paper, Our health, our care, our say, published in January 2006.
The Third Sector Commissioning Task Force was formed in 2005 to promote a commercial partnership between health and social care service commissioners and third sector providers.
For further information please visit The Third Sector Commissioning Task Force report.