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New NHS & Challenges in engaging commissioners and GPs

New NHS & Challenges in engaging commissioners and GPs. Dr Sachin Gupta GP, Welwyn Garden City RCGP GP Champion for Carers , East of England Macmillan GP. The new NHS. White Paper 2010

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New NHS & Challenges in engaging commissioners and GPs

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  1. New NHS & Challenges in engaging commissioners and GPs Dr Sachin Gupta GP, Welwyn Garden City RCGP GP Champion for Carers, East of England Macmillan GP

  2. The new NHS • White Paper 2010 - Puts patient and public first - Improve patient care - Allow GP’s to commission care - Involves local authority - Improves patient choice - Integrate health and social care

  3. Health and Social Bill Aims- • Give patients more choice • Give clinicians more control • Give organizations greater freedom from central control and political interference • Promote competition to improve patient care • Scrutiny by local authority through ‘Health and Well Being Board’

  4. Clinical Commissioning Groups CCGs • Composition – GPs, other health care professionals, Finance Officer, CEO/Accountable officer etc. • PCTs abolished • CCGsbegan work on 1stApril 2013

  5. Health & Well Being Board • Includes Local authority, representative from local authorities, councilors, public health consultant, CCG GPs, health watch etc. • Work in partnership with clinical commissioning groups • Take public health responsibilities

  6. What will changes mean for the NHS • Giving responsibility for commissioning healthcare to GPs and their team • Creation of independent NHS Commissioning Board to allocate resources and oversee CCGs • Abolition of PCTs • Transfer of public health responsibilities to local authorities • Greater freedom for providers of healthcare • Promote competition and patient choice • Makes NHS more accountable to patient & public

  7. Who directs funding

  8. Input • Public Health England • 4 regional “hubs” (in line with CB regions), and local units to fit with NHSCB local area DH Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State Input National Health Watch NHS Commissioning BoardChief Exec, Sir David Nicholson 50 PCT clusters (2012): becoming 27 NHS CB local area teams 4 SHA clusters (2012):becoming 4 NHS CB regions Monitoring Clinical Senates (Herts in EoE senate) Hertfordshire County CouncilResponsible for Public Health LocalHealth Watchto evolve from LINk • Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) Commissioning services from and contracts with… E&N Herts CCG Herts Valleys CCG Health and Wellbeing Board Commissioning services from… • Hertfordshire Integrated • Commissioning Support • Providing services for HVCCG • and ENHCCG NHS Trusts All to be FTs Specialised services GPs, Dentists, Optoms, Pharmacists Monitor Independentsector CQC Regulation Produced by The Communications Team, NHS Hertfordshire

  9. Challenging in engaging CCGs • CCGs are new, finding their feet • Adapting to the ‘new NHS’ • Developing local and regional priorities • Financial constrains • Lack of awareness • Lack of business cases

  10. Challenges in engaging GPs • Increase in workload- secondary care to primary care shift, QoF, CQC, increase in patient demands & expectations, low morale • Performance management & financial constrains • Lack of awareness - Who are carers - Issues faced by carers - Benefits of supporting carers - What can they do

  11. Suggestions to engage CCGs & GPs • Multi level engagement - Individual GP Practices - Locality level engagement - CCG - Health & Wellbeing Board - Other primary health care professionals – matrons, DNs Pharmacists etc - Other stake holders- public health councilors, local authority etc.

  12. Continued… Arrange presentation slots in • Practice meetings • Locality meetings • Practice managers meetings • CCG meetings- most CCG have one open meeting a month when anyone can attend and raise issues. • Identity enthusiasts and build relationships • Work in partnership with other stakeholders

  13. Highlight win win situation Benefits of identifying carers - Keep carers health & prevents illness - Reduces referral to secondary care - Reduces placement in nursing and residential home -If not supported then ‘two patients in place of one’ - May reduce GP consultations and workload Opportunity to make a difference

  14. Continued • Share examples of good practice and outcomes • Use business cases to support you (eg Hertfordshire Business case for carer friendly projects) • Do not give up

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