West Cheshire PPG

Monday 20th April 2015

Chairs Meeting

Chester Ellesmere Port & Neston RuralMaking sure you get the healthcare you

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New Ways of Working

Sarah MurrayProgramme Lead for Primary Care

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Working across boundaries - joining up primary, community, social and hospital care to prevent ill health and improve self-care, helping patients to manage their health.

Support people to be cared for at home. Community care will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Improve the management of long term and complex conditions

What is the West Cheshire Way?

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The West Cheshire Way is built on the needs of our population

People told us that they want:

·     Seamless, coordinated services

·     More information to manage their condition

·     To be involved in developing care plans

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How does this fit with national thinking?

The NHS Five Year Forward View:

Patients will have greater control of their own care

There will be a shift of resources from hospital to primary care

Investment in innovation and technology – radically improving patients' experience of the NHS

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What is a multi-speciality community provider?

 

A new model of care where a greater range of services are delivered in the community in a more integrated way focused around a practice population.

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Who's involved in our multi- speciality community provider?

• Primary Care Cheshire

• NHS West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group

• Cheshire and Wirral NHS Partnership Foundation Trust

• The Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust

• Cheshire West and Chester Council

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Primary Care Cheshire

A federation of our member GP practices.

Operates as a community interest company which means that they want to use their profits and assets to benefit the community.

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Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund

• West Cheshire awarded £3.7m

• One of 37 successful bids out of 156 submitted across the country.  

• Allows us to continue to focus on innovation, and continue to explore cluster based working for our practices

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Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund

The bid centred around four projects:

• Excellence in In Hours Access

• Excellence in Extended Access

• Excellence in Care for Vulnerable Older People

• Excellence in Care for People with Long Term Conditions

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Excellence in In-Hours Access

• Using technology better, including the use of video consultations and e-advice where appropriate.

• Transforming the receptionist role into navigators to help people access the right service

• Introducing Wellbeing Coordinators to navigate the Voluntary Sector on behalf of our patients

• Providing direct access physiotherapy services when appropriate

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Excellence in Extended Access

• From 1 May, patients will be able to access appointments until 9.30pm through the week. 

• Additional appointments on Saturday, 9-2pm and Sunday, 10-3pm. 

• Additional sites in Neston and Malpas.

• Full service in place by July.

• Additional 328 appointments per week

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Excellence in Care for Vulnerable Older People

• Improving access and experience for vulnerable older people, and reducing the number of avoidable, unplanned admissions from this patient group.

 • Maximise the benefits of having the

Integrated Community Care Teams (ICCT) at the heart of each cluster of practices.

 • Extend ‘early visiting’ service across the

CCG

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Excellence in Care for People with Long Term Conditions 

• Explore possibility to extend local pharmacy hours to allow patients to access our pharmacy First scheme to receive advice and treatment for a wide range of minor ailments.

• Expand the number of Self-Management courses across the CCG.

• Introduce Long Term Conditions Coaching. • Use technology to help people to self-

manage and understand their disease and care planning to reduce demand in general practice.

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Information Technology

• Substantial investment in the ICT infrastructure in primary care. 

• Better use of ICT to create innovative ways to care for patients.

• Support practices to work in clusters to enable truly mobile working for our health professionals.

• Use technology to help patients understand and manage their own health and care by use of mobile apps and other innovations.

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Talking to the People of West Cheshire

We want to hear from people who use our services

You can help us

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Any questions?