SHA Handover Reports - NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

North East - 29 September 2011
North West - 26 September 2011
Yorkshire & Humber - 30 September 2011
The three SHA Handover Reports are attached at Appendix 2, 3 and 4.
3. Proposed Actions for NHS North of England
3.1 The three SHA reports were received on October 3 rd , and are now
being assessed and reviewed by the Executive Team with specific
issues being led by the relevant Executive Director.
3.2 It is proposed that Executive Team review the reports in detail, and
provide a report for the SHA Cluster Board to advise them of the key
issues and concerns arising from the reports, and the proposed
mitigating actions.
3.3 David Nicholson has requested that Ian Cumming and Bruce Keogh
(National Quality Board) meet with each of the SHA Cluster CEOs to
review the process of handover and identify the top ten concerns and
associated actions for each Cluster.
4. Next Steps
This report summarises the reasons for preparation of legacy/ handover
documents, the process PCT Clusters and SHAs have embarked upon in this
regard, and the process the new SHA Cluster proposes to take in order to
identify the priority areas for action.
The three SHA handover documents are included as appendices to this
paper, and the board is asked to note that the purpose of these documents is
to provide a position statement to assist the handover to the new Cluster
management team, supplemented by a series of 1:1s and team handovers,
and is therefore a snapshot in time, but will provide the foundation for our
knowledge base that will need to be continually updated through Board
reporting moving forward to the handover to the new NHS Commissioning
Board in 2013. The process we have embarked upon is more rigorous than
any the NHS has ever implemented before, and provides a useful foundation
for our new SHA Cluster to build upon and take forward.
The NHS Medical Director, Sir Bruce Keogh, and Professor Ian Cumming,
Managing Director for Quality during Transition, will shortly be visiting each
SHA Cluster to assure themselves of the process we have carried out, and to
identify key issues and themes with a view to sharing best practice and/or
providing national support and advice where appropriate.
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