These pages introduce you to various themes that have been identified by IMPRESS as key to the delivery of high quality integrated care, with key documents written by IMPRESS or recommended by IMPRESS.

DH England Commissioning Pack for COPD

The DH England Commissioning Pack for COPD can be used to benchmark your services, and we strongly advise providers of uncommissioned and commissioned services and tender bidders to benchmark your services against the standards in the packs and against the NICE standards. It covers four elements: earlier diagnosis, PR, acute care and oxygen services.

Learning how to respond to tenders
All NHS Tenders are advertised here: http://www.supply2health.nhs.uk/S2HHome.aspx

IMPRESS has, since 2007, tracked the experience of providers responding to tenders.  It has produced two documents with many tips on what to do.  Do read early in your decision-making process!

Commissioning a community COPD service

Bidding for Community COPD Services - A second case study

Dos and don'ts of procurement

NHS Improvement - Lung

For useful improvement resources see http://www.improvement.nhs.uk/lung/Resources/tabid/100/Default.aspx