The management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men
The management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men commissioning guide (pdf format)
This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE guidance through commissioning, and is a resource for people involved in commissioning health and social care services and public health programmes within the NHS and partner organisations in England.Although this guide focuses on lower urinary tract symptoms in men (LUTS), health and social care and public health commissioners may wish to consider the needs of their whole population, especially older people (including those living in nursing homes), when commissioning urinary continence services.
Joint commissioners and people working in local authorities may find this guide useful to inform partnership working and joint planning.
This commissioning guide should be read together with the following NICE guidance:
- NICE clinical guideline CG97. The management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men
- NICE clinical guideline CG40. Urinary incontinence: the management of urinary incontinence in women
- NICE clinical guideline CG58. Prostate cancer: diagnosis and treatment.
NICE guidance provides evidence based recommendations about clinically effective and cost-effective treatments and interventions to improve outcomes for local populations. Making commissioning decisions based on NICE guidance and accredited information from NHS Evidence can help commissioners of services ensure they are using their resources effectively. Commissioners should refer to NICE quality standards when commissioning services and should include quality statements and measures within the service specification element of the standard contract. Managing performance against the NICE quality standards could help improve standards of care and outcomes for patients.
This commissioning guide highlights any recommendations supporting cases for disinvestment or decommissioning of services by identifying treatments and interventions that do not add value, enabling commissioners to release resources or generate savings where appropriate.
Implementation of the guidance noted above is the responsibility of local commissioners and/or providers. Commissioners and providers are reminded that it is their responsibility to implement this guidance, in their local context, in light of their duties to avoid unlawful discrimination and to have regard to promoting equality of opportunity. Nothing in the guidance should be interpreted in a way which would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.
The guide:
- makes the case for commissioning a service for the management of LUTS in men
- specifies service requirements
- helps you determine local service levels
- helps you ensure corporate and quality assurance.
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September 2010
This page was last updated: 02 March 2012
- Management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men
- Commissioning a service for the management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men
- Specifying a service for the management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men
- Determining local service levels for the management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men
- Assumptions used in estimating a population benchmark
- The commissioning and benchmarking tool
- Ensuring corporate and quality assurance
