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Information ISIP is leading a fresh approach to transformational change. We provide guidance and advice to support an integrated approach, but we start with a recognition of the range of challenges that the service is addressing locally to achieve a patient-led NHS. The financial challenge confronting many health communities cannot be resolved simply by squeezing more costs out of organisations. For example, there have to be changes in how and where services are provided. This requires enhanced collaboration across organisational boundaries, yet the forums for effective decision-making, and the support mechanisms they require, may not be ready for the challenge.Clinical and economic benefits are rarely achieved simply by implementing new technologies. They will frequently only be achieved when clinicians, often in multi-disciplinary teams working across organisational boundaries, see the benefit to patients in changing ways of working. Commissioning a Patient-led NHS, Practice Based Commissioning and Payment by Results together have far-reaching implications for how and where healthcare is delivered. Dialogue and collaboration are required across the patient journey to ensure efficient delivery of seamless care. Commissioners in reconfigured PCTs and in GP Practices will value the perspective provided by a common local vision of how, when and where healthcare provider services will change. Adaptability is also required to help a local health community to respond to the migration of local acute providers to Foundation status and increases in independent sector provision. The common theme is that national policy and local imperatives are transforming healthcare across the NHS. The impact in any local health community can be influenced by the collaboration on service transformation as championed by ISIP. Our role is to support a common approach to this transformational change. (The West Yorkshire section of NHS Networks has its own ISIP page and ISIP forum.) |
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Contact Nick Beswickisip@nhs.net | History |