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Equity and excellence:
Liberating the NHS
David Williams
Director of Commissioning
Vision
• Centred on patients and carers;
• Achieves quality and outcomes that are among the best
in the world;
• Refuses to tolerate unsafe and substandard care;
• Eliminates discrimination and reduces inequalities in
care;
• Puts clinicians in the driving seat
•Sets hospitals and providers free to innovate
•Transparent, with clearer accountabilities for quality and
results;
Vision
• Gives citizens a greater say in how the NHS is run;
• Less insular and fragmented, and works much better
across boundaries, including with local authorities
and between hospitals and practices;
• More efficient and dynamic, with a radically smaller
national, regional and local bureaucracy; and
• More stable and sustainable footing, free from
frequent and arbitrary political meddling.
Liberating the NHS – the headlines
Regulation
•Economic Regulator: Monitor regulating competition, setting
prices and supporting continuity of service
•CQC to focus on inspection (min standards)
•NICE to develop 150 standards
Demand Side
• Abolition of PCTs and SHAs and “PBCs”
• Creation of NHS Commissioning Board
• Creation of statutory GP Consortia
• Extend choice: no decision about me without me
• Health improvement duties transfer to LAs, under
DPH with Health and Well-being Boards
Supply side
•All Trusts to be FTs by April 2013
•FT private patient cap to be removed
•Ability to form Social Enterprises
•Any willing provider model in all
services
Goals and payments
•£20Bn efficiency savings & mgt costs down 45% by 2014
•NHS Outcomes framework: national outcome goals, to be
translated into GP Consortia objectives
•Board defines structure of payment systems: Regulator sets
tariff to include quality measures
The role of GP Consortia
• Consortia of practices working in partnership with
local authorities and communities responsible for
commissioning majority services
• Statutory - not optional, practice agreements
GP contract change
accountable officer
Size, geography
• Duties – equality, outcomes, public patient
involvement
• GP Consortia will decide what support services
• They will receive a management allowance
NHS Commissioning Board
• Provide leadership for quality improvement
– Setting guidelines for improving standards
– Design model contracts
– Design structure of tariff
• Promoting and extending patient choice and
involvement
• Development of GP consortia
– Hold consortia to account
• Commissioning certain services
– GP, dentistry, community pharmacy, primary
ophthalmic, maternity services, specialised
• Allocating and accounting for NHS resources
Improving Public Health
• White paper December 2010
new public health service
• Joint DPH LA and public health service
• Joint strategic needs assessment
• Health improvement budgets (eg. weight
management, smoking cessation, promotion and
prevention)
• UA responsible for population health outcomes
Health and Well-being Boards
• Key mechanism to support democratic
legitimacy
• Support, promote partnerships and integration
• Scrutiny role for major service redesign
• Lead on JSNA and public health priority setting
• Consist of local representatives, elected
councillors, Directors of Social Care, GP
consortia, Healthwatch, DPH
Healthwatch
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Champion users and carers
Voice for patients locally
Information to improve accountability
National structure
Represent patients and the public and provide
independent evidence of local services
• Representative on Health and Well-being Board
Timelines 2010/11
• October 2010 Consultation ends:•
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Liberating the NHS; Equity and excellence
Increasing democratic legitimacy in health
Commissioning for patients
Regulating healthcare providers
Transparency in Outcomes: a framework for the
NHS
• December 2010 - Public Health White Paper
• January 2010- Social Care Proposals
Timelines
Separation
of Provider
Arm
March 2011
Shadow
NHS Comm
Board
established
April 2011
GP
Consortia
established
April 2011
GP
Consortia
operational
April 2012
GP
Consortia
take full
financial
resp April
2013
Dissolve
PCT June
2013
What are we doing locally?
• Ensuring we deliver £100m efficiencies in the
next four years whilst improving quality (QIPP)
• Discussing shape and size of GP consortia in
preparation for ‘shadow’ consortia April 2011
• Engaging with boroughs on joint plans for
change – RBWAM project group
• Working through transition plans at JSCBSeptember 2010
• Preparing for OD processes and transition plans
‘Transparency in outcomes;
a framework for the NHS’
• EFFECTIVENESS
• PATIENT EXPERIENCE
• SAFETY
• Preventing people from dying prematurely
• Enhancing the quality of life for people with long-term conditions
• Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following
injury
• Ensuring people have a positive experience of care
• Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting
them from avoidable harm
• Outcome Areas, Specific Improvement Areas, Quality Standards
(NICE-150)