Welcome

1. Welcome Dr Steve Ollerton Clinical Leader

2. What is a CCG? CCG = Clinical Commissioning Group • Clinical managerial partnership: working together to drive change in health care • Leading the commissioning (planning and buying) of health services from 2013

4. How a CCG differs from a PCT • Clinically led/patient centred • Clinicians have direct contact with people and their lives and collectively see the ‘big picture’ • The Government believes clinicians have a better understanding of local needs and are better placed to make commissioning decisions.

5. Who we are • 240,000 patients • 40 GP practices (membership organisation) • Covering Huddersfield and the Valleys

6. Our geography

7. Our vision and values ...informed by our local population and clinicians, we will drive improvement of healthcare services through leadership, innovation and excellence Listening, Learning, Leading, Enabling

8. Local health needs - diverse • Areas of urban deprivation and rural isolation • Ageing population: long term conditions, heart disease and cancers • Diverse mixture of communities, cultures and faiths • The Valleys have the highest rates of overweight children and adults in Kirklees • Low physical activity rates in the Colne Valley • Smoking rates remain high

9. Local health needs (cont) • All age groups: anxiety and depression • Teenage conception rates are the highest in Kirklees within the Huddersfield area • Infant mortality rate: falling but still above national rate in South Huddersfield • Women in Denby Dale and Kirkburton reported they drank 13 units of alcohol per week; the highest in Kirklees

10. Things we have achieved so far: • Developing as a strong membership organisation • Engaging with our public and patients • Improving quality and safety and extending patient choice • Establishing system wide clinical leadership • Developing strong working relationships with partners in the health and wellbeing economy

11. Service improvements • Calderdale and Huddersfield Health and Social Care Strategic Review • Improving pain management services • Reducing avoidable readmissions • Ophthalmology: providing care closer to patients • Patient Reference Group Network • Adult hearing and non-obstetric ultrasound

12. Our priorities • Focus on quality and excellence – from others and ourselves • Reducing health inequalities in Greater Huddersfield - JSNA refresh • Enabling local people, organisations and clinicians to transform health and healthcare • From authorisation to establishment • Being the best we can be • Working with patients and the voluntary sector

13. The future We will improve lives, patient experience and deliver system wide changes You will be involved

14. Objectives of today • An opportunity to get to know each other • For us to learn about the services you provide • To demonstrate how you can contribute to the delivery of our services • An opportunity for you to ask us any questions • We are genuinely interested in discovering what services you offer and how we can best work together

15. Any questions before we get started?