1. NHS Harrogate and Rural District CCG Annual General Meeting.
Annual General Meeting
20 September 2016

2. Welcome and Introductions
Dr Alistair Ingram, Clinical Chair
NHS Harrogate and Rural District Clinical Commissioning Group

3. This is your chance to hear about:
Welcome
This is your chance to hear about:
Achievements and Performance
Commissioning Challenges
“What Matters to Us”
1. Hear about our achievements and performance over the past 12 months
2. Learn about the commissioning challenges we face over the coming months due to the very pressured financial position
3. Hear about proposed solutions and the progress of the “What Matters To Us?” programme
4. Ask questions

4. Welcome and Introductions
Amanda Bloor, Chief Officer
NHS Harrogate and Rural District Clinical Commissioning Group
This is our annual report which we are required to produce and what we have to do at the AGM is to present our annual accounts, which Dilani will do.
What I want to do is to highlight some key milestones from last year and give an overview of our future plans.
We have printed a few copies, however in the interest of the environment, it’s available on our website. Additional copies are available on request – ask a member of CCG staff and we will post one to you.

5. Highlights of the Last Year
Consistent delivery of high quality local services
Delivered our
in-year financial requirements
‘Outstanding’ award in our annual CCG Assurance Assessment
Yorkshire and Humber Dementia Quality Award
Implementing the “What Matters To Us?” new care models programme
Measured against 6 domains:
Etc etc
360 feedback
Meet constitutional standards – A&E, treatment times, cancer etc
Also improved YAS response times etc
Money – statutory requirements – but challenging
Changing the way services are delivered – based on feedback
We will cover later – but we need to constantly monitor and evaluate to ensure its working

6. Highlights of the Last Year
Continued focus on implementing our 6 strategic priorities
Public Services Leadership Board
CCG was highly commended at the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards in London
The new Section 136 assessment suite opened at Harrogate District Hospital
Selected to be one of 2 national sites working on Elective Care Vanguard Rapid Testing Programme.
What are the priorities
Urgent care, LTC, planned care, Health and wellbeing
Vulnerable people, primary care
Any achievements against them last year??
Mental health IAPT – improved acces these services
136 n0w open
Staff survey - positive
What do patients say – GP survey – positive GP survey

7. Communications and Engagement
346 HaRD Net Members
3555 Twitter Followers
4 Hot Topics: Dementia, Ophthalmology, Patient Decision Aids and Equality Delivery System
22 New Patient Advocates in Training
‘Open Space’ Event, 200 members of the public, voluntary sector organisations and providers
Stand at the Nidderdale Show
HDFT Showcase Open Event
Elective Care Rapid
Testing Event
You Matter Most – continued conversations
PCU engagement – Discover Programme
Twitter stuff
HaRD Net pieces of work
New models stuff
Other engagement
Dementia event at pavilions – making Harrogate dementia friendly
Governing body – patient stories
Kate Allat – fighting strokes presentation
We have worked really hard to establish our engagement network of local residents who care about the NHS, so we can gather views, through surveys, focus groups and conversations.
We are keen to continue to seek views when ideas and developments are at a very early stage so that involvement can contribute to shaping of plans.
We have two public events each year, which many of you have previously attended and its an opportunity to meet members of the CCG team face to face, hear about developments and give your views in person.
We have continues with our Hot Topics survey, where members of HaRD Net have completed surveys based on their specific interests, this is proving to be of great value in obtaining feedback based on ongoing projects

8. Review of the Year and Look Forward
Dilani Gamble, Chief Finance Officer
NHS Harrogate and Rural District Clinical Commissioning Group
This is our annual report which we are required to produce and what we have to do at the AGM is to present our annual accounts, which Dilani will do.
What I want to do is to highlight some key milestones from last year and give an overview of our future plans.
We have printed a few copies, however in the interest of the environment, it’s available on our website. Additional copies are available on request – ask a member of CCG staff and we will post one to you.

9. 2015/16 Annual Accounts
A full set of Accounts for 2015/16 is available within the CCGs Annual Report:
Here at the AGM
On our website
Or by contacting us on

10. 2015/16 – Financial Duties
Any internal audits?

11. 2015/16 – Financial Challenge
Increased actual costs £11m (11.2%)
Increased budget £7m (8%)

12. Looking Forward – Financial Challenge
£28.8m gap
£8.4m gap

13. Read All About It…

14. Read All About It…

15. Commissioning Challenge
Challenging Local Financial Position – FACTS
As the statutory health commissioner
we have a fixed allocation and we have to manage within it
The NHS is under extreme pressure across the country –
HaRD has a significant challenge locally
The CCG has to commission for the whole population
Demand and public expectation continues to grow
HaRD population use more planned hospital services than similar populations elsewhere
Need to look at cost effective options to provide services needed
CCGs have a number of statutory responsibilities:
Improving health outcomes, reducing health inequalities and delivering financial balanced position.
We focus on populations rather than individuals
Healthy population and the funding is based on this.
So we do receive less than Y&H average and England average – the allocation is based on NEED so we receive less because this population require less acute healthcare.
We have less NEED, however we do have a growing demand – this is different.
We also have a growing older population – all allocations are based on local demographic. We do not receive anything additional as we have an older population
There are many other alternatives to A&E.
All practices offer on the day triage and appointments. Many offer telephone consultations. Pharmacies can provide advice and medication for a number of minor ailments, with very good access
Eg going to pharmacy for cold, cough etc rather than GP
Buying some medicines OTC rather than on prescription

16. Commissioning Challenge
We all need to have difficult conversations and make tough decisions in order to ensure we can continue to provide essential services for all our local population

17. This is what we are doing…
New models of care – based on patient feedback
Reviewing all areas of spend and contracts to ensure both quality and value for money
Redesigning clinical pathways to streamline and reduce duplication
Utilising national benchmarking and best practice commissioning guidelines
CCG response to the commissioning challenges – one big piece of work is NCM
CCG responsibilities to deliver within budget;
We need to reduce variation across pathways, between practices and clinicians
We are moving towards integrated commissioning in H&SC, working more closely with NYCC on local services

19. This is what we now need to do…
Health and wellbeing strategy that includes referral pathways
Reduction in follow ups – where there is evidence these are not necessary or adding any clinical value
Using evidence based thresholds for treatment
Review prescribing of ‘over the counter’ medicines
Reduce waste in repeat prescriptions
Prioritisation of spend in key areas
Financial position requires further measures.
We cant spend more than the allocation we have been given.
£900,000 each year on over the counter medication
We have to maximise value to ensure we can commission population wide services

20. Prevention is better than cure
We know that 15% of HaRD population smoke
We know that 66% of North yorkshire residents are overweight or obese (BMI over 25)
We know that
Get serious about obesity or bankrupt the NHS – Simon Stevens 2014
25% of adults are obese up from 15% 20 years ago. Obesity is one of the biggest causes of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes UK estimate that it already costs the NHS £9m a year
PHE estimate that the cost of obesity to the UK NHS is £4.2bn a year.

21. Reducing waste releases money
Reducing waste, duplication of services and variation is proven to reduce cost and also improve quality.
We know from Rightcare and benchmarking we have significant opportunity to release funding spend in the wrong areas and use elsewhere

22. Q2.) the options available to reduce waste and spend in HaRD area
Table Conversations
Discuss on your tables:
Q1) What more could the NHS and social care do to support people to have the confidence to take more control of their health and how best to manage it?
Q2) The options available to reduce waste and spend in HaRD area
We want you to have conversations on the tables around the commissioning challenges we face locally.
By waste we mean appointments or medicines that add little value or examples of duplication of services
We value your feedback and suggestions on areas where we can reduce waste and spend
Each table has a GP member of the GB on the table and they can answer any questions and support the discussion on your tables
Q1.) what more could the NHS and social care do to support people to have the confidence to take more control of their health and how best to manage it?
Q2.) the options available to reduce waste and spend in HaRD area

23. Question and Answer Session

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