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www.clltheroeadvertl8er.co.uk Clitheroe Advertiser&Tfmos,Thursday, March 29.2012
Our key priorities
1. Acute (hospital) planned care
Acute planned care is the care provided in a hospital that is planned in advance, for exampie, surgery which a GP has referred a patient for or - an appointment with a,hospital consultant.
What are our priorities? • Improve the quality of referrals and reduce unnecessary hospital appointments
• Ensure patients receive the' right treatment . at the right time to ensure patients are not vreferred for treatment until it is clinically : appropriate .
I ^ I •-. VVork with hospital doctors and GPs to carry
■ out a full review of ophthaimology (eye) service
Ophthalmology Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis, treatment, <ind prevention of diseases of the eye and visuai system. Ophthaimology in tegrates with many other branches of medicine - did you know that the com monest cause of visual impairment un der the age of 65 years is diabetes ?
• Ensure patients with stable glaucoma (eye disease) can have their clinicai appointments closer to home •
» Review the ENT (ear, nose and throat) service to identify procedures that can be carried out
closer to home and to improve the patients' clinical journey
• Commission a specialist pain management service.
' Review orthopaedics to ensure patients
are seen ;.cioser to home when clinically appropriate -
Work with the hospitai to review and improve cancer pathways '
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Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
CAMHS offers assessment and treatment of complex mental health difficulties of chiidren up to 16 years oid. It consists of a multi-disciplinary team, comprising of sociai workers, mental health practitioners, medical and nursing staff and a consultant psychiatrist with some input from a ciinical psychologist.
• To increase the positive experiences of
children and young people using health services
• To involve children and young people in the , planning of services
2. Children and Young People
Children and young people services are services that are designed specifically for young people in both hospital and the community
What are our priorities?
• To reduce hospital admissions • To reduce attendance at emergency and urgent care departments
• T o reduce inappropriate referrals to the
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
• Carry out a comprehensive redesign of urgent care centres with the co-location and integration of the out of hours service
• Pilot the new 111 service
• Review and reduce levels of demand for emergency ambulances
• Implement the management of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) within primary care
• Work with community and social care providers to improve discharge pathways
What are our priorities?
•, Work to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions
• Work to ensure community and crisis services meet the needs of patients
• To work with other Clinical Commissioning
Groups in Lancashire to reconfigure hospital mental health services
• Review the dual diagnosis service (someone with mentai health problems and also drug and/or alcohol problems).
• Formalise the assessment and diagnostic care pathway for people with mental health and learning disabilities
• Review access to psychological services and , single point of access services -
• Develop a diagnostic care pathway for Autistic Spectrum Disorder
IT'S YOUR NHS - SO HAVE YOUR SAY ... YOUR VIEWS MATTER
• Reduce waiting times for treatment • To give patients the choice to die at home • Access to rehabilitation and enablement to all those patients who require it
• To improve the quality, safety and patient experience of services which have been bought by the clinical commissioners
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To deliver care closer to home Develop the NHS Health Checks programme
'Medicines optimisation' means offering the potential to improve the safe use of medicines in all care settings, harnessing the expertise of professional and patient working together.
What are our priorities?
• To improve the health of patients in the CCG through the use of medicines, involving patients in decisions taken regarding their medicines and providing patients with better access to support for medicines taking.
• The CCG will promote the use of new medicines approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for prescribing in the NHS and discourage the use of medicines not endorsed by NICE.
• The CCG will work with local hospital teams to agree how the use of medicines can be optimised when used for the treatment of common conditions through the agreement. of joint prescribing guidelines.
Mental health services are services that are designed specificaily for people who require access to services that will deal with their mental health needs in both hospital and the community
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1. Acute (hospital) planned care
2. Children and young people's services 3. Mental health services 4. Unplanned (urgent) care 5. Community services 6. Medicines optimisation
4. Unplanned Care
Unplanned (urgent) care is the care provided at an Urgent Care Centre, Minor Injuries Unit or Accident and Emergency Unit
What are pur priorities?
• Improve access'.to urgent care • Review access to urgent primary care
Community services are designed to provide .care outside of a hospital setting
What are our priorities? • To deliver-improved .outcgmesjor people with a long term condition
6. Medicines Optimisation
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