Thank you for sharing your views, please remember to fill in your details at the end of the survey if you'd like to be entered into the prize draw for an iPad/HD TV/e-Reader. Different questions will be applicable depending on your job function, so if there is a question that doesn't apply or you don't know the answer to, feel free to move on to the next one.

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* 1. What is the name of your foundation trust?

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* 2. Which county are you in?

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* 3. Which of the following best describes your role?

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* 4. What's the approximate size of the local population that your foundation trust serves?

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* 5. Please indicate the ways in which you acquire services to support your business function, indicating the proportion acquired through the listed channels in percentage terms (Please feel free to give just a rough approximation for categories of CSS you have knowledge about)

  Deliver in-house Commissioning Support Units Independent Sector Local Authorities Other Foundation Trusts Community Voluntary Sector Other (please specify)
Business Support (e.g. financial management, payroll, HR, ICT, governance)
Healthcare Procurement and Provider management
Transformation and Service Redesign
Communications and Patient/Public Engagement
Business Intelligence and Data Management
Clinical Support (e.g. individual funding requests, medicines management, continuing healthcare, funded nursing care)

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* 6. How do you expect the ways you currently access these services to change in the next two years?

  Deliver more in-house Outsource more No change Don't know
Business Support (e.g. financial management, payroll, HR, ICT, governance)
Healthcare Procurement and Provider management
Transformation and Service Redesign
Communications and Patient/Public Engagement
Business Intelligence and Data Management
Clinical Support (e.g. individual funding requests, medicines management, continuing healthcare, funded nursing care)

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* 7. Please indicate which of the following organisations (if any) your foundation trust is likely to share the following types of business/commissioning support services with?

  Clinical Commissioning Groups Other Foundation Trusts Local Authorities Community Voluntary Sector Other (please specify below)
Business Support (e.g. financial management, payroll, HR, ICT, governance)
Healthcare Procurement and Provider management
Transformation and Service Redesign
Communications and Patient/Public Engagement
Business Intelligence and Data Management
Clinical Support (e.g. individual funding requests, medicines management, continuing healthcare, funded nursing care)

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* 8. On a scale of 1-5, with 1 being the least important and 5 being the most important, please indicate how important the following factors are in influencing who your foundation trust chooses to buy business/commissioning support from

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Size of organisation
Geographical proximity
Previous/current relationship
Specialist expertise and skills
Wider knowledge (e.g of policy and best practice)
Able to deliver broad range of services
Price
Guaranteed savings
Reputation
Recommended by others
Quality of customer experience

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* 9. On a scale of 1-5, with 1 being the least important and 5 being most important, how important are the following factors in influencing who you partner with when jointly buying business/commissioning support services?

  1 2 3 4 5
Size of organisation
Geographical proximity
Relationship history
Potential cost savings
Reputation
Shared goals
Recommended by others

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* 10. Please indicate how you would like to outsource your business/commissioning support services from the following options:

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* 11. Please leave your email and phone number in case we need to get in touch to clarify your responses and to be entered into the prize draw

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