Everyone who provides health, social, and mental health care across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough will plan together and work together.
We believe we must work across boundaries: between NHS and local authority social care; GPs and hospital care; and physical health and mental health. None of our organisations can be sustainable acting alone; our financial challenge is too great. We need to work together in a way that we have never done before. In addition to new ways of working, and a new relationship between medical professional and patient, we can do more to collaborate in our non-patient facing services, including back office and clinical support services, and reduce duplication. Collaboration between commissioners, including the Clinical Commissioning Group and local councils, NHS providers, and general practices, is crucial. There are examples in our system of where this is already happening and members of these organisations have already begun to work together as equal partners to a far greater extent than ever before.
Larger general practices
Many of our GP practices recognise the benefits for sustainability of working together as federations and larger primary care teams. We believe this will enable better access to resources through sharing and
specialisation and closer working between GPs and their colleagues in hospitals. Development of the primary care
workforce (GPs) is an important part of this.
We also recognise that people are supported by a network of formal and informal care, and aim to work in partnership with local organisations, such as faith groups and the voluntary sector.
Hospitals joining together
Hinchingbrooke Hospital and Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals joined together to form North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust on 1 April 2018 .
Royal Papworth Hospital have now moved onto the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. This will lead to further formal collaboration with Addenbrooke’s Hospital in due course.
Back office
We have started to rationalise overheads and support services. We will establish a shared HR back office that includes healthy workforce. We will also develop a single approach to procurement during 2017/18 and pilot this new approach within orthopaedics through joint procurement of all joint kits.
Financial incentives
Having committed to shared planning and transparency in tracking cost improvements and Quality, Innovation,
Productivity, and Prevention (QIPP) delivery in 2016/17, we will look at ways to share risk and align financial incentives.
Health and social care
The Clinical Commissioning Group and local authorities are collaborating with the aim of aligning commissioning
arrangements for mental health and healthy child services.
Working with the voluntary and community sector, and support for carers
Key to reduction of hospital admissions is coordinating support for people. Many relevant services and interventions are provided by voluntary and community sector organisations. All commissioners are seeking to work more closely with the voluntary and
community sector.