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Response from the Specialised Healthcare Alliance: The Future of Commissioning
Posted on: November 7 2014, 11:05 am
Dear CAB Members,
Below is a collective response from the Specialised Healthcare Alliance sent to the Times newspaper regarding the future of Specialised Commissioning. I have pasted in the full text of the letter as you need a subscription to see the full online version.
../ Dear Member, The Alliance’s letter to The Times has now been published online and appears on page 31 of today’s print edition. The full text is reproduced below. Many thanks again for your support. We will also be writing to Simon Stevens and colleagues following his description of the co-commissioning proposals as “modest” at yesterday’s Board meeting, asking him to demonstrate the fact. Separately, we have been notified by BBC West that its piece with the Alliance’s statement will be broadcasted during the Inside Out West programme on Monday. An update will be provided in due course. Best wishes, Dorothy Dorothy Chen Follow us on Twitter @TheSHCA The secretariat to the Specialised Healthcare Alliance is provided by JMC Partners LLP. ___ Sir, The Health and Social Care Act 2012 has been much criticised. The decision to transfer responsibility for specialised services from local commissioners to NHS England was, however, recognised by all as a sensible step, providing certainty around standards and access to treatment where previously there had been little or none. NHS England’s subsequent experience has been less happy, involving a substantial overspend and cumbersome decision-making, all with damaging effects for patients. These problems are, however, fixable and do not challenge the fundamental sense of planning specialised services and sharing the associated financial risk across the country. It is therefore of serious concern that NHS England is now proposing to co-commission specialised services with local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). It makes sense for the NHS to collaborate at national and local level, but muddying budgets and responsibility between NHS England and CCGs promises a return to the postcode lottery of the past. We write as members of the Specialised Healthcare Alliance. Baroness Wheeler of Blackfriars (Chair) Anne Keatley-Clarke, Children’s Heart Federation Arlene Wilkie, Neurological Alliance Caroline Davey, Bliss Catherine Harris, Communication Matters Chloe Hayward, UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum Chris Phillips, Behçet’s Syndrome Society Christos Sotirelis, UK Thalassaemia Society Colin Dyer, WellChild Dan Burden, Spinal Injuries Association David Edgar, UK Primary Immunodeficiency Network David Ryner, CML Support Group Deborah Gold, National AIDS Trust Ed Owen, Cystic Fibrosis Trust Elizabeth Bevins, Raynaud’s & Scleroderma Association Henny Braund, Anthony Nolan Jackie Bland, Shine James Babington Smith, Guillain Barré and Associated Inflammatory Neuropathies Jayne Spink, Tuberous Sclerosis Association Jeremy Taylor, National Voices John Kell, Motor Neurone Disease Association Lara Bloom, Ehlers-Danlos Support UK Lesley Kavi, Postural Tachycardia Syndrome UK Liz Carroll, Haemophilia Society Lynne Regent, Anaphylaxis Campaign Nick Sireau, AKU Society Paddy Tabor, British Kidney Patient Association Paul Decle, Forum Link Paul Lenihan, Action Duchenne Richard Piper, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity Richard Rogerson, Niemann-Pick UK Rosanna Preston, Cleft Lip & Palate Association Rosemary Gillespie, Terrence Higgins Trust Sasha Daly, Teenage Cancer Trust Steve Powell, SignHealth Susan Walsh, Primary Immunodeficiency UK Timothy Statham, National Kidney Federation
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Kind Regards,
Paul.

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