Collaborative Commissioning
Previous NHS legislative mechanisms made it difficult for the health and care system to work collaboratively and flexibly across different geographical footprints, forcing some local systems to adopt complex workarounds to be able to align their decisions and pool budgets. In practice, these arrangements were potentially cumbersome and difficult to manage and risked slow decision-making processes.
	The Act makes a number of technical legislative changes to remove barriers and bureaucracy which could get in the way of delivering high-quality care to patients.
	The Act makes it easier for integrated care boards to commission services collaboratively with other integrated care boards and other system partners by permitting a wider set of arrangements for joint commissioning, pooling of budgets and delegation of functions.