Strategic Commissioning Business Unit

Head of service: Claire Saul

We are responsible for:

Driving the availability of a sustainable diverse strategic commissioning market that will meet assessed and forecast needs in Warwickshire.
Working in partnership internally and externally to implement the full cycle of commissioning activities, including delivering evidenced value for money.
Supplying technical commissioning skills/expertise.
Developing the market for personalisation.

We consist of:

A team of commissioning professionals with expertise in all areas of strategic commissioning from assessment and forecasting of need in communities, co-creating strategies and contract procurement, market management through to quality assurance and contract monitoring.
Commissioners from both children’s and adult services with strategic commissioning professional expertise.
Working jointly across health and social care, offering commissioning.
Support and joint contracts to the Primary Care Trust and General Practitioners.