Agenda item

NEW MODELS OF CARE AND TRANSFORMATION BID UPDATE

To receive a presentation from the Interim Accountable Officer and the Chief Clinical Officer from Trafford CCG.

Minutes:

The Chairman of Trafford CCG gave a brief introduction of the Transformation plan to the Committee. The introduction included an assurance that members of the Transformation team would be available throughout the Transformation process to update the Committee on any areas requested. The Committee were informed that Trafford’s bid for £22M of Transformation funding had been successful and that the implementation of the bid would be a unique process and opportunity for Trafford to bring about a new way of delivering services unlike anything seen before. 

 

The Interim Accountable Officer (IAO) for Trafford CCG then went through the presentation that had been circulated with the agenda. As the Committee had seen the presentation in advance only the main points were covered. The challenges that both Trafford Council and Trafford CCG faced were laid out and the IAO explained how the new structure of the two organisations would enable them to overcome those challenges.

 

The Medical Officer for Trafford CCG then described the new model of primary care which was one of the main programmes of work within the Transformation plan.  The new model involved bringing together all primary care services into a single organisation with a single ethos. The new model was to have work streams that focused upon prevention, planned care access, the urgent care offer, domiciliary care, specialised primary care, and medicine optimisation. 

 

In addition to these changes the Committee were told that there were opportunities for improvements to be made at the practice level which would be undertaken concurrently with the overarching umbrella changes. The Chairman of Trafford CCG concluded the presentation by noting that all aspects of the Transformation plan had been conducted elsewhere but that nowhere else had combined all of the separate aspects on such a large scale.

 

Following the presentation Committee members posed a series of questions to the representatives of Trafford CCG. One Member enquired as to the role that the Trafford Coordination centre (TCC) would play in the Transformation Plan. The IAO replied that the TCC was improving steadily and had a continually increasing capacity but that it still was not fulfilling its potential and offered to share the TCC Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data with the Committee. The Medical Officer for Trafford CCG confirmed that the TCC was a fundamental part of the new model of care and that it was being aligned to fit the purposes of the new model. The Chairman of the Committee asked whether the Committee could visit the TCC before Christmas and the Chairman of Trafford CCG agreed to the request.

 

Another member of the Committee asked about accessibility of information among the various organisations and professionals involved in the delivery of the new model of care. The Medical Officer for Trafford CCG acknowledged that there were a large number of systems that needed to work together and informed the Committee that many of these were already in place. The Committee were told that another IT solution was still to be implemented which would allow staff to access their own profiles and data from a wide number of locations across Trafford. This solution would be pivotal in enabling the flexible ways of working which were required for the new models of care to work.

 

The final question posed by the Committee was how the new organisation and the GPs that hadn’t signed up would meet the new Greater Manchester standards. The Medical Officer for Trafford CCG stated that the dashboard which was already being used by Trafford GPs would be aligned with a combination of the GM standards and localised targets in order to hold GP members to account.

 

RESOLVED:

1)    That the update be noted.

2)    That a visit to the TCC be arranged for Committee before Christmas.

3)    That KPI data for the TCC be shared with the Committee.

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