Local solutions to national challenges: delivering our commitment to patients
Key enablers so CCGs have the freedoms and flexibilities to transform healthcare for their local populations and concentrate on the big issues.
Local Solutions to National Challenges, puts forward a series of key “asks” to policy-makers, regulators and the government aimed at giving CCGs the freedoms and flexibilities they need to transform healthcare for their local populations and concentrate on the big issues: sickness prevention, health inequality and healthcare targeted to the needs of the patient.
It has been developed with our members and details a number of asks from national bodies which include:
- Allowing CCGs to focus on the long term view, with planning for at least the next five years rather than annually, and a multi-year financial settlement to support this
- A new single outcomes framework for health, public health and social care which will allow CCGs to focus on tackling long term health issues
- A more mature partnership with national bodies, with an end to micromanagement, a more proportionate assurance regime and support when CCGs have to make tough decisions
- Real recognition that diverse geographies need diverse local solutions and that a one size fits all model will not work – while national government may set out the principles they should not dictate policy, leaving CCGs to choose the best healthcare for their local populations
- Reform of the current tariff system of payment that which they feel favours hospital care over sickness prevention
