'Payment-by-results' Feasibility Study
Bury PCT and Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT

Client: Bury PCT and Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT
Value: £30,000
Duration: July 2006 (4 months)

Project Overview
The drive to deliver a Patient Led NHS has required Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to fundamentally change the way they are structured and deliver services including a split between Provider and Commissioning arms. If the Provider arms are to successfully operate in a contestable marketplace, they must meet service user demand levels and be commercially viable based on the level of service usage and National Tariff costs.

CPC’s Role
CPC and the idm Group (strategic partner) were commissioned to undertake a feasibility study of the impact of Payment By Results on the commercial viability and sustainability of each service within the recently merged Rochdale Borough and the Bury Provider arms.

Client Benefits
• Imbedding a “Business “ mentality with Profit and Loss accountability for the Provider Services including visibility of their break even point
• “Mini” business plans for each Service to allow service managers to make operational decisions that optimise outcome and expenditure
• Identification of those services which will be sustainable and those that will not identify recovery plans
• Identification of opportunities for service improvement to realise efficiencies to ensure commercial viability under Payment by Results
• A corporate view of sustainability of PCT provider services and recommendations on corporate improvement

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