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The PSTA / Commissioning Compass / Reading

Key questions

Aspect of Commissioning 2: Relationships and organisation across the system. Teaching text from June 2025.

June 2025 teaching template, slide 38

Relationships and organisation across the system

Is everyone working together coherently across our place?

Do we have effective governance?

Are we learning from the past?

Can we look at the knock-on effects of our setup and our decisions?

Do we have effective collaboration, partnership, and challenge across all key groups: commissioners, providers, politicians, communities, etc?

Are all stakeholders engaged with open communication?

Are we learning about and working on our relationships?

Are we optimising our results by responding appropriately to the maturity level of our relationships?

Give each question a score and once completed document some observations and examples for each aspect 0 – 24 Poor (significant risk), 25 – 49 Fair (lesser/lower risk, improvement required) ,50 – 74 Good (shortfalls identified/need to be addressed) 75 – 100 Excellent (no action required)​

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