Chapter 43: Commissioning for mental health services

1. The Standard Contract also introduced an incentive scheme for providers. The _______ for _______ and __________ Scheme – known by the acronym CQUIN was introduced as part of the 2010-2011 contract.

Answer: Commissioning Quality Innovation

2. The 2016–17 Standard Mental Health Contract will for the first time include the requirement that services administer a _____ ______ ______ ______ (PROM) and initiate a service development in response to this measurement. 

Answer: Patient Reported Outcome Measure

3. The competency framework proposed under _____ _______ ______ was an attempt to raise ambitions for commissioning in a way that has not been achieved in any of the modern health economies internationally. 

Answer: World Class Commissioning

4. For commissioning to be effective there needs to be a balance between the three perspectives of ______ , _____ and ______ in order to ensure that health benefits are maximised with the available resources. 

Answer: Service User Clinician Commissioner

5. Case Management as a discipline was introduced into commissioning in 2000; this followed the devolution of the commissioning of _______ secure services from a national to a regional level and was aimed at the accelerated discharge of service users from high secure hospitals following the Tilt review of security (Tilt et al., 2000).

Answer: High

6. In recent years, there has been an attempt to redefine the ‘currency’ by which services are paid from output based, meaning that providers are paid for how many service contacts they have with a service user or how many ‘bed days’ have been occupied by a service user, to one that is ________ based. 

Answer: Outcome

7. The initial phase of the commissioning process is to understand ____ and this can be done in a number of ways. 

Answer: Need