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HCAF provides a range of tools to assist PCTs with World Class Commissioning. These include:
* Actuarial risk analysis
* Forecasting demand
* Identifying excess levels of acute interventions
* Testing the robustness of business cases and investments
* Tools for social marketing
* Patient flow in a free choice environment
* Optimum site analysis for new facilities
* The contract management tool
PCT and PBC commissioners will find the material under the 'Financial Risk' folder of great interest. Additional material under the 'Emergency Admissions' and 'Forecasting Demand' folder is worth reviewing. See the 'Capacity Management' folder for details of the capacity & contract management tool.
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