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Section 12 is a glossary of terms and contains an explanation of some of the
statistical terms and methods used within the report.
Section 13 is the appendix which includes further background information such
as details of the local surveys conducted, definitions and classifications used.
Information relating to the qualitative findings are also presented. The appendix
also gives the data for the underlying tables (page 814), and a table which gives
information on when each table and figure was last updated, the time period to
which the table or figure refers and the data source (page 944).
Section 14 is the index.
3.3.6 Influence of NHS Reorganisation
This Release 3 of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Foundation Profile
concentrates on measures of health and well-being and influential factors for Hull
residents and/or the patients registered with general practices within the Hull (PCT or
local authority area). In the White Paper “Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS”
published in July 2010 (Department of Heath 2010), a major reorganisation is planned
where the PCTs will no longer exist and commissioning powers are given to GP
consortia. In the local area, as at February 2011, the process of setting up the GP
consortia is underway. As well as this reorganisation, in the meantime (between now
and the disbandment of the PCTs in 2013), PCTs must cluster together to share key
functions and ensure that all statutory work is completed with their depleted staffing
levels (with staff leaving due to management cost reductions and leaving to find
employment prior to the PCTs being disbanded). It is likely that Hull PCT will be in a
cluster with East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, and possibly North East
Lincolnshire 3 . Nationally, an independent and accountable NHS Commissioning Board
will be set up. From the Public Health White Paper published in December 2010
(Department of Health 2010), local authorities will be given the responsibility for
improving people‟s health and tackling health inequalities, with Directors of Public Health
in upper-tier local government and unitary local authorities, backed up by a new service
Public Health England.
From the Health White Paper (Department of Heath 2010) and the Public Health White
Paper (Department of Health 2010), new Health and Wellbeing Boards will be set up to
support collaboration across the NHS and local authorities in order to meet communities‟
needs as effectively as possible. GP consortia and local authorities, including Directors
of Public Health, will each have an equal an explicit obligation to prepare the Joint
Strategic Needs Assessment, and to do so through the arrangements made by the
health and wellbeing board.
3 As North East Lincolnshire has taken on provision of social care it is not known if it needs to cluster with
other PCTs.
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