Welcome to PRUComm
We provide evidence to inform
the Department of Health’s policy
on commissioning to maximise
outcomes for patients.

Building links with our research users and sharing our findings through our dissemination programme is essential to PRUComm. Join our network to have access to our latest research findings. Click here >>

Check out the Health Policy, Politics and Organisation Group (HiPPO) which investigates innovation in primary care organisations.
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Contracting in commissioning
This project will investigate how commissioners negotiate, specify, monitor and manage contractual mechanisms. It aims to understand which practices produce the best services in their local health economy. The project will look at both acute services and community healthcare. Read more >>

Our goals and activities
PRUComm has published a brochure designed to sum up our activities and goals.
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13 June 2011, Manson Theatre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, was one of several speakers at the launch of PRUComm and other new health policy units. Read more >>

Stephen Peckham, PRUComm Director
Commissioning is a complex and difficult process.
It is fundamentally about relationships. With the organisation and structure of the NHS currently in flux, the commissioners are constantly facing new challenges. Read more >>