Q32-Comms-Engt-Strategy

1. Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group
1.1 Stockport’s Clinical Commissioning Group exists so that Stockport people will access
high quality health services that empower them to live healthier, longer and more
independent lives.
1.2 At this time of great change in the NHS, our challenge as a new organisation is to change
the way local health services are commissioned to deliver improvements within a limited
financial budget.
1.3 The aim of Stockport’s Clinical Commissioning Group is to be known and
respected for:
• consistently achieving and often exceeding local and national quality standards;
• delivering an increasing proportion of services from primary and community
settings in an integrated way;
• being an innovative and financially sustainable economy;
• reducing the gap in health outcomes between the most and least deprived
communities in Stockport; and
• being an excellent membership organisation and great place to work.
1.4 The values that lie at the heart of our work are:
• Being quality obsessed - by putting patients at the centre of decision making we
will continually improve services
• Keeping a primary and community focus – we will deliver care as close to
home as possible with general practice at the heart
• Innovation– we will continually look for better and more cost effective ways of
delivering care and implement them
• Working collaboratively – we will work constructively with others to shape the
future
• Patient Responsibility – we will work with patients empowering them to take
responsibility for their own health and for using NHS resources wisely
• Distributive leadership – we will devolve decision making and resources
• Behaving Professionally – we will be trustworthy, evidenced based, and
disciplined .
1.5 To deliver our ambitions, we have identified six major priorities for change over the next
three years:
• Quality
• Long-Term and Complex Conditions
• Unscheduled Care
• Staying Healthy
• Demand Management and Clinical Cost Effectiveness
• and Reform
Communications & Engagement Strategy 2012-2015