ABOUT US CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) MEETINGS LOCAL SERVICES YOUR HEALTH NEWS GET INVOLVED CONTACT US You are here: Home › About us › Tenders, Procurement and Contracting › Any Qualified Provider Any Qualified Provider Increasing patient choice Any Qualified Provider (AQP) is a work programme that will enable the Government to fulfil its commitment to increase choice and personalisation in NHS funded services for patients and the public. AQP is being implemented following a national listening exercise to consider which health services would benefit from having increased choice. Service providers can apply to be a specific AQP service based on quality not price. Patients referred to the new AQP services will be able to choose from a list of ‘qualified’providers who meet agreed service quality requirements. Selected AQP services will start to be available from October 2012. AQP Aims and Objectives The strategic aims of AQP are to: Increase choice and access of health service providers for patients. Improve quality and outcomes of health services. Drive innovation and efficiency of health services. Patients referred to the new services made available under AQP will be able to choose from a list of ‘qualified’ providers who meet agreed service quality requirements, through a locally agreed specification. The CCG’s role The Department of Health expects each CCG to choose to undertake three out of eight specified service lines for the implementation of Any Qualified Provider (AQP). Further information All AQP Service lines are advertised on Supply2Health, which also contains more information on AQP: www.supply2health.nhs.uk MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS SUPPORT FIND SERVICES Choose a service and enter your postcode SOCIAL MEDIA Shoppers to get more than they bargained for as extra vaccine appointments offered November 26, 2021 0 Look after your’elf is the message to children across Lancashire and South Cumbria this Christmas November 24, 2021 0 Top up jab bookings opened up for more than one million people November 22, 2021 0 It’s National COPD Awareness Month – do you know what to look out for? November 17, 2021 0 Health Equity Commission for Cumbria as well as Lancashire November 16, 2021 0 Tweets by @BwDCCG FAQS What does clinical commissioning mean for GPs and GP practices? So what are clinical commissioning groups? UPCOMING EVENTS Joint & Virtual (online) Annual General Meeting for NHS Blackburn with Darwen & East Lancashire CCGs September 7, 2020