- The Year of Care Pilot Programme
- The policy context
- Why Year of Care? The case for change
- What works for LTCs
- Care planning - what is it?
- The benefits
- The care planning training support programme
- Information technology
- Commissioning and Year of Care
- Involving and engaging patients and the public
- Needs assessment for self management support
- Commissioning care planning the nuts and bolts including currencies and tariffs
- Non traditional provider development and menu of care
- Care Planning and diabetes service redesign
- The YOC Commissioning Model for long term conditions
- About us - Year of Care Partnerships
- Contacts
- Year of Care resources
- References
- Year of care forum
- Year of care document library
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Commissioning and Year of Care
Commissioning is one key component of the Year of Care Programme. It is the foundation of the care planning house and pilot sites quickly found that they could not commission care planning in isolation from wider issues related to the design services for people both with diabetes (as an exemplar) and all people with long term conditions.
The project provides learning with examples and new models for
- Involving and engaging patients and the public
- Needs assessment and self management support
- Commissioning care planning – the nuts and bolts including
currencies and tariffs
- Non traditional provider development and the menu of care
- Care planning and service redesign
- The Year of Care commissioning model for long term conditions
The Year of Care model which started with a focus simply on the clinical encounter between the person with diabetes and the health care professional demonstrated that when this becomes truly collaborative, it can become an engine for change across the wider commissioning landscape.

