What is Specialised Commissioning?

Specialised Commissioning is the means by which Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) work together to plan, buy and manage services which treat patients with rare conditions.

As the number of patients needing these treatments is small, it is beneficial for the nine PCTs based across the East Midlands to work together and commision through the East Midlands Specialised Commissioning Group (EMSCG), a dedicated NHS organisation with specialist skills and expertise in this field.

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Specialised Services

What are Specialised Services?

Specialised services are high-cost, low-volume interventions and treatments.

Particular challenges for these services include training specialist staff, supporting high quality research programmes, and making the best use of scarce resources like expertise, high tech equipment and donated organs.

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Commissioning excellent, sustainable specialised services for the people of the East Midlands

The East Midlands Specialised Commissioning Group (EMSCG) ensures the East Midlands has a specialised service commissioning function in place that is compliant with the recommendations in the national review of specialised service commissioning - the Carter Review. It puts an overall structure in place that is able to discharge the full range of responsibilities associated with commissioning rare conditions for the entire population of the East Midlands.

The EMSCG works on behalf of all nine primary care trusts (PCTs) in the East Midlands.