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The Evidence-based Commissioning Collaboration is currently made up of 2 commissioning consortia: North Derbyshire, South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw Commissioning Consortium (NORCOM), and part of The North East Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire Primary Care Organisation (NEYNL),  which, on behalf of PCTs in their areas, are working with the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR). ScHARR is based in the University of Sheffield and houses the northern arm of the Trent Research and Development Support Unit.

The objective of the Collaboration is to share research knowledge about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of service interventions to inform the commissioning process. These will usually be interventions which are not likely to be addressed by NICE in the near future.  The choice of topics is determined collectively by the PCTs through their commissioning Consortia.

The main principle on which the arrangement is based acknowledges that PCTs continually have to review evidence on particular technologies in order to determine their commissioning priorities. Since different PCTs will be looking at the same issues, there are clear benefits and economies of scale through the avoidance of duplication of evidence reviews.

ScHARR provides the capacity which the PCTs lack in evidence retrieval and assessment/review and in economic analysis.

Forerunners to the current initiative were the Trent Working Group on Acute Purchasing and the Trent & Yorkshire Evidence-based Commissioning Group.

 

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