Futures Forum: The new Beacon Medical Centre at Stowford...... Information evening at Stowford Rise Community Centre.... Wednesday 29th October
Next month will offer the public the chance to hear about the latest proposals for health services in Sidmouth and Devon:
The future of health services and how they will affect Sidmouth
The evening's discussion concerns local services such as health visitors, district nurses, Victoria Hospital, minor injuries units etc.
Vision Group for Sidmouth - Community Health Services
Proposals have been made for health services - and there has been considerable response:
Devon NHS body takes 'urgent measures' as finances worsen | Exeter Express and Echo
East Devon county councillors unanimously object to hospital bed losses - Claire Wright
Councillors have been sent further details:
Urgent local NHS cost cutting measures
Monday, 27 October 2014 0 Comments by Claire
Councillors have been sent the following letter by John Finn of the NEW Devon clinical commissioning group. I note it is also a news story today….
Worrying times for the NHS and all its patients and next year NEW Devon ccg will be in a position of a £30m deficit.
Dear colleague
Re: Urgent and necessary measures to address patient demand
As a key stakeholder I am writing to inform you that we expect to announce a series of urgent and necessary measures to address a worsening of the CCG’s financial situation.
As you will be aware, last year the CCG returned a £14.5 million deficit (known as the control total) and this year we have been predicting the same.
Our confidence in meeting the control total at the end of the current financial year has gradually declined as the situation has become clearer; in short, demand for services is outstripping what we can afford.
Whatever the actual cause of the increase in demand, it is having a serious effect on the financial position of our own organisation – and if we fail to deal with it now as the area’s main commissioner, services will suffer.
We must act to protect essential services through our busiest winter months and ensure that care is there for our patients when they really need it.
The CCG has already begun to implement a series of measures designed to improve efficiency in the system and encourage patients to contribute to improving their own health outcomes.
This includes the following:
Requiring morbidly obese patients to lose weight prior to routine surgery
Requiring smokers to quit for at least six weeks prior to routine surgery
Introduce criteria-based approval for routine procedures such as hernias, botox injections and cataracts
Reduce unnecessary consultant to consultant referrals
Suspend treatments where there is little or poor evidence of outcomes.
These measures bring the CCG into line with similar organisations in the NHS. However, they are not enough.
The CCG is working up a series of measures to prioritise those patients most in need, while at the same time, increasing efficiency in the wider system – and the CCG itself.
Our clinical chairs and managing directors are now busy working up proposals, in collaboration with NHS England and others, so that we can submit a paper to the next Governing Body on November 5.
This paper will be published on the CCG’s website on October 29 – seven days before the meeting.
Throughout the implementation of our ‘in-year’ plan we will be prioritising those services and requirements laid out in the NHS Constitution.
They include (but are not limited to):
Consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18-weeks from referral for non- urgent conditions
Maximum four-hour wait in A&E from arrival to admission
Maximum seven day wait for follow-up after discharge from psychiatric in-patient care
Being seen by a cancer specialist within a maximum of two weeks from GP referral where cancer is suspected
Maximum 62-day wait from referral from an NHS cancer screening service to first treatment
Patients waiting for a diagnostic test should have been waiting less than six weeks from referral
Ambulance trusts to respond to 95 per cent of category A calls within 19 minutes of a request being made.
To meet the challenge of prioritising patient need while at the same time meeting our control total, the Governing Body will be asked to temporarily change how we work.
We are intending to split our management and administration resource between ‘business as usual’ and ‘in-year priorities’.
‘Business as usual’ will be led by Jerry Clough while the in-year priority areas, below, will be led by the following:
Acute contract management – Jerry Clough, chief operating officer and western managing director
Urgent care – Caroline Dawe, managing director, northern
Planned care – John Finn, managing director, eastern
Continuing Healthcare – Lorna Collingwood-Burke, chief nurse
CCG running costs – Hugh Groves, director of finance
Prescribing / medicines management – John Finn, managing director, eastern
Individual patient placements – Paul O’Sullivan, director of partnerships
Other smaller contracts – Hugh Groves, director of finance.
Finally, just a reminder that the Governing Body paper detailing the proposals will be available on our website at http://www.newdevonccg.nhs.uk from October 29.
Should you have any questions about the paper when it is published please contact d-ccg.easternlocality@nhs.net
I will, of course, be happy to answer any queries that you have.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely
John Finn
Eastern Locality Managing Director
NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group
Urgent local NHS cost cutting measures - Claire Wright
There are concerns about how these measures will affect the newly-refurbished Victoria Hospital in Sidmouth:
Latest local news & information in Sidmouth | Sidmouth Herald
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