Clinical Commissioning Group Support Services
The development of Clinical Commissioning Groups, as part of the coalition government’s NHS reforms, provides both an opportunity and a challenge to GPs and other professionals involved.
The opportunities include:
- to control the majority of NHS resources and thereby to extend your responsibility for the care of your patients;
- the movement of the commissioning of healthcare from a general management exercise in Financial assurance to a Health assurance tool driven by clinical need;
- the ability to show that, as generalist clinicians, you understand the needs of your patients and can commission care to meet their needs more efficiently than PCTs, can make better decisions and can manage the local healthcare system more effectively.
These opportunities cannot be ignored and we believe that, if it can be done safely, they should be grabbed.
You need to recognise, however, why CCGs are being formed and why they are being offered so much power. You need to recognise that they are evolving in the face of an economic cold climate, a perfect storm of economic and demographic forces and in the eye of a politically-driven imperative to transform the NHS from a paternalistic parent / child model, where patients are the passive recipients of what the system offers, to an NHS which is driven by you as the agents of the citizen – they after all fund the service – and it is that moving from a system to a service that is key.
The support available from The Thinking People Group, which blends clinical with academic and programme management and business change expertise, is designed by experienced healthcare professionals and supports a clinically-directed programme to help you deliver your vision – to meet the challenge, grasp the opportunity and demonstrate that you deserve the confidence of every citizen.
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