NHS Cross-Regional SHA Social Value Commissioning Project Bulletin No. 1 - July 2009 (August 2009)
Managers and commissioners within the NHS and local government are caught in a ‘value squeeze’ (i.e. increasing pressure to do more with less) as they seek to deliver more and better services under tighter budget constraints. Within this context, the development of social value will add an additional dimension to both existing service provision and also services that are at the procurement stage.
What this project aims to do is two-fold:
Managers and commissioners within the NHS and local government are caught in a ‘value squeeze’ (i.e. increasing pressure to do more with less) as they seek to deliver more and better services under tighter budget constraints. Within this context, the development of social value will add an additional dimension to both existing service provision and also services that are at the procurement stage.
What this project aims to do is two-fold:
- Develop a framework within which the social value of the current commissioning and procurement activity can be captured and articulated - this will allow the NHS to show its ‘true’ value across the public sector; and
- Embed the use of social value concepts in commissioning and procurement activities - this will allow commissioners to ‘manage’ social value across a whole system and to work more effectively with their partners to deliver social value outcomes.
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