Ms. Sally Banister, the Vanguard Programme Lead, has been invited to the Panel to provide Members with an overview of their Vanguard Programme experience.
Minutes:
The Panel welcomed Ms. Sally
Bannister to the meeting. Ms. Bannister
was the North East Hampshire and Farnham Vanguard Programme Lead and had been invited to the meeting to provide an overview of
the Group’s Vanguard Programme.
Ms.
Bannister advised the Panel that the North East Hampshire and Farnham Clinical
Commissioning Group, together with health and social care partners, had been awarded Vanguard status by NHS England. This would involve plans for moving services
away from hospitals and into the community and to bring together elements of
health and social care so that services could be provided
quicker. This could happen because
Vanguard status brought with it expert guidance and national resources to
provide support and flexibility to bring about the aims of the Programme. Essentially, it could be said that the
Programme provided a “turbo boost” to what had already been agreed that should
happen to ensure that people were supported to be happy and healthy at home for
as long as possible.
It was noted that Vanguard was a partnership of clinicians and
service managers from:
·
NHS North East Hampshire and Farnham Clinical
Commissioning Group
·
primary care
·
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (which ran
Frimley Park Hospital)
·
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation
Trust (mental health services)
·
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust (community
services)
·
Virgin Care (community services)
·
Hampshire County Council (social care)
·
Surrey County Council (social care)
·
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS
Foundation Trust
·
North Hampshire Urgent Care (out-of-hours GP
service)
·
voluntary sector
The Vanguard
programme would also work with patients and the public to help shape, develop and continually improve the way services were
provided by designing services with the local community, helping people to look
after themselves. It would also enable
staff to provide high quality joined up care by making sure that funding and
organisational boundaries did not hinder progress.
Ms.
Bannister referred to the structure of the partnership, which comprised a Chief
Executives Group of the key partnership members and working groups for each of the
following work streams, details of which were also outlined:
·
design group
·
prevention and self-care
·
integrated hubs and enhanced out of hospital
care
·
a new model of care for people with acute needs
·
supporting the development of primary care to
operate at scale
·
design and deliver a new commissioning model
·
determining the organisational arrangements
through which providers work as one
·
understanding the needs of local people and the
outcomes they seek
·
effective co-production, engagement and
communications
·
access to electronic records for patients and
care professionals
·
redesigning the workforce and ensuring
behavioural change
·
evaluating the impact of the changes
·
estates
During
discussion, Members raised questions regarding the impact of the Government’s
Spending Review, patients’ electronic records and the sharing of such
information, the timescale for the Vanguard Programme, costs, outcomes and
priorities.
On behalf of the Panel, the Chairman thanked Ms. Bannister for her informative presentation and it was AGREED that a clinician, Dr. Andy Whitfield, Chairman and Clinical Lead for the North East Hampshire and Farnham Clinical Commissioning Group would be invited to attend a future meeting to provide an update on the Vanguard Programme’s work and the impact on services.