Proactive Care Celebration Event!

20th October - 24th October

On Thursday, I attended the ‘Proactive Care CQUIN Evaluation Event’, which was held to celebrate the peer groups' achievements towards the CQUINs from quarters one and two of the financial year. CQUINs (Commissioning for Quality and Innovation) are incentives that aim to improve quality outcomes for patients. Commissioners create a set of targets for local service providers to achieve, in order to receieve a payment in return. The GP practices in the local area, were required to produce a presentation to demonstrate their efforts towards implementing the Caring Together programme as part of the CQUIN initiative. Many of the peer groups presented case studies of patients (who's details were kept confidential) who have had positive experiences of care and how working with health and social care professionals has had a positive impact on improving the care of elderly individuals.

I will be working with the Caring Together team over the next few months to evaluate the option of procuring a risk stratification tool that will identify the top 20% of high risk patients within each GP practice in the East Cheshire area. Currently, we have a pilot risk stratification tool which has been running throughout the year, however this is up for renewal and members of the CCG have decided that a new risk stratification tool is needed. Myself and the team are aiming to find a new tool that allows us to integrate social care factors into the search for high risk patients. We will be producing a Business Case to procure a new tool which will be implemented next year. This will enable the GPs to ensure that patients who have high risk long-term conditions are on their radar and will also allow them to create tailored care plans in order to integrate and improve the quality of the care in East Cheshire.

I have also been working towards achieving my certificates from the HFMA (Healthcare Financial Management Association). I have chosen five modules to complete over the 12 months that I am on placement. The modules involve taking assessments about NHS finance and the structure of the NHS in England. To date, I have completed and passed the following modules; ‘NHS Business Cases’, ‘NHS Commissioning’ and ‘Introduction to NHS Finance'! Undertaking the assessments has been a really helpful way of learning about how the NHS operates and I now have a better understanding of how the finance from NHS England to Clinical Commissioning Groups works.