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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NHS says: Text 'HEART' to take part

Young people across the East Midlands wanting to take part in the consultation to change children's heart services will be able to respond via a new text service set up by Safe and Sustainable - the NHS consultation on childrens congenital heart services.

NHS urges people to have their say on the future of children's congenital heart services

The NHS has launched a major four month consultation on the way children's congenital heart services should be provided in the future. The NHS is urging everyone with an interest in children's congenital heart services to take part in the consultation and have their say on these vital services.

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.