Guidance

3-part payment for urgent and emergency care: an introduction

A single, consistent payment approach that has the potential to drive greater collaboration between services within a network.

Applies to England

Documents

Making payment work better to support new models of urgent and emergency care: an introduction

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This document is for all organisations involved in the commissioning or delivery of urgent and emergency care (UEC) services, including NHS 111, community pharmacy, community care urgent response and social care urgent response services, in-hours urgent primary care, GP out-of-hours, 999, ambulance, walk-in centres, urgent care centres, emergency department attendances and emergency admissions.

It is intended for chief executives, clinicians and others who require a broad understanding of a potential new payment approach being developed by Monitor and NHS England to support the service reform, but who do not need to access detailed guidance on payment design and implementation.

You can find more a more detailed paper in our collection of local payment examples.

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Published 12 August 2015

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