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NHS clinical commissioners in eight English cities are calling for more support from national NHS bodies to speed up efforts to transform people’s healthcare and wellbeing. They want greater flexibility when it comes to contracting services and sharing data so they can be better informed.
The call came in a report launched this week by the NHS Clinical Commissioners’ Core Cities Network at a conference in London.
The latest NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare has just been published, with 102 maps detailing widespread variation in the quality, cost, activity and health outcome of healthcare in the English NHS. The indicators focus on a variety of services.
The Atlas is a collaboration with NHS England, Public Health England and NHS Right Care and can be accessed here
(Previous versions of the atlas are also available online.)
Recently highlighted in the media, information about the Atlas and its themes can be found here
You can read the recent Public Health England Press Release about the atlas here
The NHS Confederation also commented (see link) on the usefulness of the Atlas which provides intelligence and highlights variations in care across regions.
A free event, run in partnership with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) Adopting innovation in the NHS: working in partnership is taking place on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 in London. This event has been designed to help you understand the process of adopting innovation, how to engage colleagues and other stakeholders and cross-agency involvement.
The speakers include:
Four case studies that represent leading-edge work will be used to show innovation in practice. The case studies will focus on how partnerships can accelerate innovation and stimulate radical change, and will give you practical information on how to transfer these approaches to your workplace.
When and where: Wednesday 27 February 2013 at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, London.
“The NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB), plays a key role in the Government’s vision to modernise the health service with the key aim of securing the best possible health outcomes for patients by prioritising them in every decision it makes.
Formally established as an independent body, at arm’s length to the Government, on 1 October 2012, it will carry forward the preparatory work begun as the NHS Commissioning Board Authority while taking on initial statutory responsibilities. The most notable of these responsibilities being the authorisation of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) which are the drivers of the new, clinically-led commissioning system introduced by the Health and Social Care Act.
The NHS Commissioning Board will take up its full statutory duties and responsibilities on 1 April 2013.”
Read more about the NHS CB. See their website at http://www.commissioningboard.nhs.uk/ for news, information, puiblications, events, resources including blogs and RSS feeds for subscription.
Welcome from Barbara Hakin
Welcome to the latest bulletin for emerging clinical commissioning groups. This issue contains a number of items which are of absolute importance, both to CCG leaders and others involved in the new clinical commissioning system.
The three newly-formed clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Leeds have launched an ambitious project to improve the quality of referrals by adding local pathways to the Map of Medicine. Leeds West CCG, Leeds North CCG, and Leeds South and East CCG, with a combined patient population of over 810,000 spread over 113 GP practices, aim to ensure all GPs use the care maps when making musculoskeletal referrals.
Having agreed the pathways for six musculoskeletal topics locally, the Leeds project team used Map Transform, a package of care maps and services, to establish their pathways on the Leeds ‘view’. This package supports clinically-led service improvement, and enables cross-service communication via easy online access to the agreed local pathways for all stakeholders. The topics Leeds chose were:
The care maps display referral criteria at specific points within the pathways, with information that guides the user to the appropriate local referral form. The overarching aim of these care maps is to standardise and improve the quality of referrals from primary care to community MSK and secondary services. While a triage service for all MSK referrals was in place, and effective at ensuring good conversion rates for surgery following onward referral to secondary care, it was felt that GPs could perform some of the functions of triage, with the patient pathway being streamlined. The care maps are intended to expand GPs’ knowledge of MSK conditions, and also promote patient self- management.
read more via Map of Medicine | Leeds Clinical Commissioning groups launch MSK care maps.
Inside this edition you will find:
• AQuA Holds Its Second Member Annual General Meeting
• AQuA At The NHS Confederation Event 2012
• AQuA & Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust Host Targeted Improvement Workshop In Manchester
• Mental Health AQuA Improvement Methodologies Course Is Launched
• Avoiding Unnecessary Hospital Admissions And Inappropriate A&E Attendances Of Children & Young People With Long Term Conditions
• National Shared Decision Making WebEx’s
• Health Foundation Opens Second Round Of Improvement Science Fellowships
• Reducing Mortality Programme
• IHI Open School Licences
• A New Role For Finance In Quality Improvement: Cohort 2
• Focus On Commissioning – New Programme
via AQuA.
A one stop shop for everything commissioning managers and teams might require can be found at www.QualityMK.nhs.uk
The latest information alerting readers to hot topics like GP consortia development, public health intelligence, outcomes based contracts and all relevant papers will shortly be included on our Health Management page.
From NHS Networks – this is a portal for clinicians, managers or anyone involved in commissioning. It brings together the best sources and resources to save time and promotes the sharing of useful information – newsletter available.
Go to http://www.networks.nhs.uk/commissioning for free access – no password required.
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