Monday, 4 November 2013

Day 46: Making the Dough Rise

I had two significant conversations today about the role of CCGs as health system leaders:

The first was with the Chief Nurse from a provider who had raised a difficulty about staff serving patients who could be managed better in other services.  They can’t resolve this alone, as the issue needs leadership across a number of organisations to best serve patients.

The second with another CCG Director of Quality about similar issues.  We agreed that we need to bring together local providers' nursing directors to identify areas of greatest patient benefit to improve access to services, where these services are delivered and how to achieve the best possible outcomes with them.

Maybe I’ve been watching too much Paul Hollywood (of Great British Bake-off fame) but this made me think of CCG Directors of Quality acting as the yeast within a local health system; whereby providers can do a lot alone, without commissioners, but with them the dough can rise and activate the component parts to work together to make the most out of the ingredients.

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