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HCAF provides a range of tools to assist PCTs with World Class Commissioning (see PCT WCC HCAF Resume). These include:
* Actuarial risk analysis
* Forecasting demand
* Identifying excess levels of acute interventions
* Stress testing of business cases assumptions
* Tools for social marketing
* Patient flow in a free choice environment
* Optimum site analysis for new facilities
* The contract management tool
In a world where every project has to make a real return on investment the service offered by HCAF on stress testing of business case assumptions is a unique 'must have' for any project. All business cases have implied assumptions behind every component of the business model. Sophisticated software allows all assumptions to simultaneously vary (as they would in the real world) to reveal the full range of financial outcomes and their likelihood.
Details of the tools offered by HCAF to assist PCTs achieve World Class Commissioning can also be found in the "Supplier Directory" part of the NHS Institute's "PCT Portal".
http://www.institute.nhs.uk/world_class_commissioning/pct_portal/pct_portal.html
HCAF also provide training and mentoring for commissioning and information specialists. | 
For PCT's