Summer Focus 2012 - Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS ...

Health and social care services across the
district are changing due to new government policy: the Health and Social
Care Act 2012.
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) like
NHS Airedale, Bradford and
Leeds, who commission services
from Bradford Teaching Hospitals,
will be abolished in April 2013
and some of their responsibilities
will be taken over by clinical
commissioning groups (CCGs).
These are groups of GPs who will
pay for and design health services
across the district, including our
hospitals.
Other services will become
the responsibility of the new NHS
Commissioning Board, and most
public health services will move to
Bradford Council.
There are three CCGs in the
district - Bradford City, Bradford
Districts and Airedale, Wharfedale
and Craven – which were set up
to prepare for the changes.
The CCGs are currently in
shadow form and will take
on their full duties, subject to
authorisation from the NHS
Commissioning Board, from this
April.
The governing bodies of
these organisations must include
doctors, a secondary care
specialist (from a hospital or
mental health trust, for example),
a nurse, two members of the
public, a chief finance officer and
an accountable officer.
The changes will mean that
local doctors – who have good
knowledge and understanding
about their patients – will
be buying and designing the
services used by local people.
This provides a much better
opportunity to improve services
for local people.
A priority for all three local
CCGs is to have patients and the
public central to decision making,
to hear what people think and to
use this information as they make
decisions about services and to tell
people how they have used their
views.
What will the changes mean?
Services CCGs will buy
include:
■ community health services, eg
district nursing, health visiting
and community hospital care
■ maternity services
■ planned hospital care
(operations, scans, etc)
■ rehabilitation services
■ urgent and emergency care,
including A&E, ambulances and
out-of-hours services
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■ continuing healthcare (a
package of care provided
outside hospital, arranged and
funded by the NHS, for people
with ongoing healthcare
needs).
Services the NHS
Commissioning Board will
buy include:
■ primary medical services,
including community
pharmacy and NHS sight tests
■ all dental services
■ specialised services
■ high security psychiatric
services.
Introducing the clinical
commissioning groups
Settle
Airedale, Whafedale
and Craven CCG
Patient popluation: 156,000
Bradford Districts CCG
Patient popluation: 328,000
Bradford City CCG
Patient popluation: 118,000
Public health will move to
Bradford Council, which
will have responsibility
for health improvement
services including:
■ most sexual health services
■ the Healthy Child programme
for school age children –
including school nurses
■ local programmes to
promote physical activity,
healthy eating and weight
management
■ drug and alcohol misuse
services
■ stop smoking services.
Skipton
Ilkley
Keighley
Clinical Commissioning
Groups Populations
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