IN ACTION CASE STUDY


Happy together


DR TIM DALTON, clinical chair of Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group


and COO Trish Anderson, take a big picture approach to commissioning. They tell


JULIA DENNISON about their innovative integrated care model, and how campaigns like Breathless, which addresses asthma, COPD and heart failure under one pathway, help bring health and social care together


T


he integration of healthcare into the community is obvious the minute you set foot into the Wigan Life Centre, home to Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group. The CCG’s HQ is located


in a building that plays host to a number of different social and health care services and its open-plan office overlooks a public pool and fitness centre – so the local population is never too far out of sight. The physical structure of the building is symbolic of the CCG’s larger approach to integrating health and social care in a unique and forward-thinking manner. When I visit clinical chair Dr Tim Dalton and chief operating officer and interim accountable officer Trish Anderson, it’s April, the time when commissioning groups like Wigan Borough were just coming into shadow form. Dr Dalton sits on the commissioning board as lead clinician, while Anderson is lead manager – and both have high hopes for rolling out their innovative integrated care model to the local community.


DOCTOR KNOWS BEST


Dr Dalton considers himself a GP first and foremost, having worked in general practice in Wigan for 12 years prior to his post on the CCG board. His


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