Contracting and Performance Management in the Health Sector: Some Pointers on How to Do It

This toolkit aims to assist in the preparation and use of health services contracts. The term “contract” is used here to cover any form of document that provides a quantified specification of the health services outputs expected from given financial inputs within a given time period and to defined quality standards, and that is used to guide and control the behaviour of both the payer of those financial inputs and the provider of the specified service outputs. [author’s description]