The commissioning and benchmarking tool
Download the cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) commissioning and benchmarking tool
Use the cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) commissioning and benchmarking tool to determine the level of service that might be needed locally and to calculate the cost of commissioning the service.
Identify indicative local service requirements
The indicative benchmark based on the national average for CBT is 3%.
The commissioning and benchmarking tool helps you to assess local service requirements using the indicative benchmark as a starting point. With knowledge of your local population and its demographic, you can amend the benchmark to better reflect your local circumstances. For example, if your population is significantly younger or older than the average population, or has a greater number of people serving in the armed services, or a higher number of refugees you may need to provide services for relatively fewer or more people.
Review current commissioned activity
You may already commission services providing CBT for your population. The tool provides tables that you can populate to help you calculate your current commissioned activity and costs.
Identify future change in capacity required
Using the indicative benchmark provided, or your own local benchmark, you can use the commissioning and benchmarking tool to compare the activity that you might need to commission against your current commissioned activity. This will help you to identify the future change in capacity required. Depending on your assessment, your future provision may need to be increased or decreased.
Model future commissioning intentions and associated costs
You can use the commissioning and benchmarking tool to calculate the capacity and resources needed to move towards the benchmark level, and to model the required changes over a period of 4 years.
Use the tool to calculate the level and cost of activity you intend to commission and to consider the settings in which the service providing CBT for the management of common mental health problems may be provided, comparing the costs of commissioning the service across the various settings. The tool is pre-populated with data on the recurrent and non-recurrent cost elements that may need to be considered in future service planning, which can be reviewed and amended to better reflect your local circumstances.
Commissioning decisions should consider both the clinical and economic viability of the service, and take into account the views of local people. Commissioning plans should also take into account the costs of monitoring the quality of the services commissioned.
This page was last updated: 31 March 2010
- Cognitive behavioural therapy service
- Commissioning a service providing cognitive behavioural therapy for the management of common mental health problems
- Specifying a service providing cognitive behavioural therapy for the management of common mental health problems
- Determining local service levels for a service providing cognitive behavioural therapy for the management of common mental health problems
- Assumptions used in estimating a population benchmark
- The commissioning and benchmarking tool
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