Brochure which accompanies NHS Midlands and East's AQP

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How does <strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Midl<strong>and</strong>s</strong> & East support <strong>and</strong> enable a commercial focus? ■■ Competition Panel with Independent Members <strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Midl<strong>and</strong>s</strong> <strong>and</strong> East has appointed an independent Competition Panel to uphold the Principles <strong>and</strong> Rules of Cooperation <strong>and</strong> Competition (PRCC). The panel can provide advice to commissioners <strong>and</strong> is helping to ensure that good practice is spread across the region to ensure that the highest quality services are commissioned for our patients. ■■ Commercial Advisory Board The Commercial Advisory Board (CAB) brings together representatives from existing <strong>and</strong> potential future providers into a common forum to discuss system reform <strong>and</strong> market issues. This includes approaches to procurement, lowering barriers to market entry <strong>and</strong> innovative commissioning strategies. The CAB provides feedback on the strategic direction taken by PCTs <strong>and</strong> the SHA <strong>and</strong> serves to increase the flow of intelligence <strong>and</strong> exchange between providers, commissioners <strong>and</strong> the SHA. The recommendations of the CAB go to <strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Midl<strong>and</strong>s</strong> <strong>and</strong> East’s Management Board. The membership comprises 15 to 20 members <strong>and</strong> providers from all sectors are represented as well as PCT cluster chief executives <strong>and</strong> members of the SHA senior leadership team, including the Director of Policy <strong>and</strong> Strategy <strong>and</strong> the Director of Customer Service <strong>and</strong> the Strategic Projects Team. ■■ Strategic Projects Team The Strategic Projects Team supports, designs <strong>and</strong> delivers innovation through strategic change, merger, divestment, acquisition <strong>and</strong> franchise. The team works alongside clients, stakeholders <strong>and</strong> the market place to develop competitive transactions that drive up the quality of patient experience, clinical excellence, value for money, safety <strong>and</strong> care, public service, quality, innovation <strong>and</strong> productivity. 8 Led by Andrew MacPherson, the Strategic Projects Team has designed <strong>and</strong> delivered ground breaking transactions such as the franchise agreement at Hinchingbrooke Health Care <strong>NHS</strong> Trust. The team has won a range of awards, including HealthInvestor Deal of the Year 2011.

Who are the Commissioners? Following the publication of the White Paper in July 2010 <strong>and</strong> planned system reform, the Department of Health concluded that it would not be possible to retain effective management capacity in all PCTs until their abolition in 2013 <strong>and</strong> that this would present unacceptable risks to quality <strong>and</strong> financial management. Therefore, in 2011, PCTs consolidated their management capacity, with single executive teams each managing a cluster of PCTs. Individual PCTs remain as statutory organisations <strong>and</strong> whilst the clusters are not statutory bodies or permanent features of the l<strong>and</strong>scape, they are necessary to sustain PCT capability <strong>and</strong> enable the creation of the new system. 9 From April 2013, assuming the passage of the Health & Social Care Bill proceeds through Parliament as planned, commissioning will be carried out by CCGs. There are currently 71 emerging CCGs across the region, although it is likely that the final number will be slightly reduced from this.