Monitor 17 September 2015
- Report from the Contingency Planning Team appointed by Monitor to review and develop further a joint plan by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council and NHS Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group to better join up health and social care across the area.
- The suggested new care model is based on the wider health and social care system and suggests a number of innovations. These include the development of new care professionals called ‘extensivists’. Extensivists are specialists who focus on the patients most likely to require NHS services. In addition to specific training they will have extensive experience in looking after patients with complex medical conditions and will complement and work alongside GPs.
- Five key elements of the new care model:
- Preventative and proactive care: keeping people well and independent for as long as possible.
- Integrated urgent care service: the development of a single service to deal with people who are in social crisis or seriously unwell.
- Planned care: responsibility for the wellbeing of the patient is shared by a single team, from home to hospital and back home again.
- Maternity care: wait til outcome of the Cumberlege Review of maternity services
- Hospital specification: in the new model every resource, including the hospital, is brought together around the four elements of care above
- The main report includes a description of each element, how it was developed, who was involved and implementation plans.
- Estimates of costs and impact on the existing deficit as well as set up costs are included.
