Clinical commissioning groups are key to transforming the NHS CCGs can build relationships locally and take the lead on integrated and innovative work.
For the past year clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have been working hard to make a difference in a system that isn't set up to support them. But in spite of increasingly unstable finances and an NHS that is still embedding and adapting to new ways of working, CCGs are making responsible, clinically-led decisions in partnership with GPs, patients and providers which are making a difference to the care being delivered to their communities. Our Taking the Lead publication highlights 16 CCGs across the country who are unleashing the power of clinical leaders, working with local government, the voluntary sector and other key partners.
The 16 examples show what results for patients the innovation, enthusiasm, energy and clinical leadership of CCGs can have for example, in Corby, senior GPs now work part of their week in a new urgent care facility, and local people no longer have to travel eight miles to A&E for an x-ray. Or take Oldham, where the CCG is working with the local council and a housing association to lift people out of fuel poverty so that 1,000 households stay warm in the winter. In Leicester, health coaches are helping people with chronic lung disease to look after themselves, and in east London people recovering from mental ill-health can now be seen out of hospital in their GP surgery. Continue reading... The Guardian
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