While social care commissioning is “in its infancy”, health commissioning is “embryonic”, a care provider leader said yesterday.
English Community Care Association chief executive Martin Green told a Commission for Social Care Inspection conference there was much the NHS could learn from councils about commissioning despite local authorities’ deficiencies in this area.
Green said: “In health they have chucked money at systems and not understood what they wanted from those systems or how to assess them.”
Health commissiong is embryonic, says Martin Green
June 30, 2006 in Children
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