NHS North Mersey
Working better. Together.
NHS organisations across North Merseyside are working together to make the local healthcare system more efficient, and ensure that we provide the very best service for patients.
This work is part of a national NHS programme known as ‘QIPP’ (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention).
In recent years the NHS has undergone a period of unprecedented growth, and we have seen the benefits of this investment across North Merseyside. Like all areas of the public sector, we are now in a more challenging economic environment. Nationally, the NHS is required to make £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014/15. For North Merseyside, this equates to between £350 million and £400 million. To achieve this we will need to improve efficiencies and quality, and look for opportunities to reduce variation, duplication and waste within the NHS system.
Who is involved?
Thirteen NHS Trusts are taking part in the Merseyside QIPP programme. They are:
Aintree University Hospitals
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology
Liverpool Community Health
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
Liverpool Primary Care Trust
Liverpool Women’s Hospital
Mersey Care
NHS Knowsley
NHS Sefton
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals
Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals
The Walton Centre
The vision
A preventative, people-centred, productive NHS
The strategy
• Accelerate quality improvement
• Create services that are universally great
• Designed around the needs of the individual and accessible to all
• Tackle inequalities and promote equality
• Protect the quality of frontline services
• Care closer to home and the community
Delivery
The programme focuses on nine key areas – known as clinical pathways – each led by a senior clinician. Together these individuals form the North Mersey Clinical Redesign Team. Tony Bell from the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust acts as sponsor for the group, and John Hussey from Liverpool Primary Care Trust is the chair.
The nine clinical pathways are as follows:
• Urgent Care
• COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• CVD (cardiovascular disease)
• Diabetes
• Children's and Young People
• Cancer
• Pathology (clinical support services)
• Mental Health
• Dementia
The programme also includes further areas of work which cut across the clinical pathways, each led by a chief executive. These ‘enabling workstreams’ are as follows (chief executive leads are in brackets):
• Commissioning (Derek Campbell, chief executive, Liverpool Primary Care Trust)
• Communications
• HR (Raj Jain, chief executive, Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust)
• Prevention (Bernie Cuthel, chief executive, Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust)
• Estates (Liz Mear)
• IT (Alan Yates, chief executive, Mersey Care NHS Trust)
• Finance (Louise Shepherd, chief executive, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust)
• Corporate Citizenship (Alan Yates, chief executive, Mersey Care NHS Trust)
• Medicines Management (Catherine Beardshaw, chief executive, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
In April 2011 we launched an email bulletin to share information about the QIPP programme on North Merseyside. Read the first edition of Working better. Together.
