Right to Provide information sharing session

The ‘right to provide’ (R2P), announced in March 2011 builds on the Government’s commitment to give public sector workers new rights to provide services as staff-led enterprises and bid to take over the services they deliver. Staff-led enterprises encompass staff-led mutuals, cooperatives, co-owned businesses and social en-terprises, joint ventures and partnerships.

The key aim of the right to provide is to enable NHS and social care staff to take the initiative in developing services that better meet the needs of the patients and communities they serve and to secure additional benefits by providing this through a staff-led enterprise.  Specific objectives for the programme include:

• Enabling increased diversity of provision;
• Delivering increased efficiency and improved quality;
• Enabling choice; and
• Supporting existing QIPP objectives.