Commissioning Group
Winchester City and Rural Practice Based Commissioning Group.
The practice is an active member of the above group which acts as a sub-committee of the Primary Care Trust [NHS Hampshire]. It's role is to actively engage in the commissioning of health services for our patient population. This involves reviewing current services and planning future services so that the local population is served by a comprehensive range of appropriate services. This can be very challenging when money and resources are not easy to secure, but is an important role for modern general practices. Increasingly the responsibility for managing the limited budgets and resource is devolved to local organisations hoping to secure value for money and effective, responsive health service provision.
Current work involves:
1. Unscheduled Care Project - working with A&E and the Medical Assessment Unit at Winchester to reduce unneccesary admissions and securing rapid access to investigations and specialist opinions.
2. Whiteboard Project - this ties in with the unscheduled care project to ensure that patients at risk of unscheduled admission are discussed between the practice and community teams to provide timely interventions and a higher degree of monitoring. Communication with hospitals and facilitated discharge is also a facet of this project.
3. Community Diabetes Pathway - This supports the provision of Diabetic care for most Type 2 Diabetics at or near to their General Practice. A new Community Diabetic Service has also been developed which will support the care for all diabetics in West Hampshire from April 1st 2010. This replaces the hospital based care provided by Winchester and Basingstoke Hospitals. The Service uses a Consultant-led model rather than a Consultant delivered model and support will be available for diabetics and their General Practices through a team of specialist nurses and Consultants based in the community.
4. Improving the Dermatology Service locally to include medical and surgical dermatology integrated better with General Practice and with community provision where appropriate.
If you are interested in the politics and provision of local services, you can get involved through the Hampshire Local Involvement Network [LINK]. Please fill in and return one of the forms available from the surgery.
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