Transforming Community Services:

The Department of Health document outlining an overview is available for download here:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_100830.pdf

Transforming Community Services – North West Joint Trade Unions Half Day Conference

http://www.nelctp.nhs.uk/tcs/docs/TCSpossibleimplications.pdf

Department of Health – Transforming Community Services: enabling new patterns of provision:

This enabling guidance is intended to help PCT providers of community services to move their relationship with their commissioners to a purely contractual one, consider what type(s) of organisations would best meet the future needs of patients and local communities, and how change can be managed to support the transformation of services to patients.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_093197

Right to Request:

The ‘right to request’ is part of a bigger vision for the future of the NHS as set out in High Quality Care For All: NHS Next Stage Review Final Report published in June 2008. This recognised that we will only succeed in placing quality at the heart of everything we do if frontline NHS staff are given the freedom to use their talents to find innovative ways to improve quality of care for patients.

This guide at the link below aims to support NHS staff who are thinking of taking up the ‘right to request’ and setting up a social enterprise to deliver healthcare services to NHS patients.

Social Enterprise - Making a Difference: a guide to the Right to Request

(http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_090460)