Commissioning Intentions and Integrated Diabetes Care

30^th November-11^th December

This week I have been involved with the organisation and the facilitation of the Commissioning Intentions workshop. A select number of attendees were invited to attend the event from Eastern Cheshire CCG staff to patient representatives. Prior to the workshop a set of project mandates were put together and during the workshop a prioritisation matrix was used to score each of the projects on different areas both financial and non-financial.

The scores for each of the projects were then ranked in order from highest to lowest and the ones with the highest scores are taken forward and considered as a priority for the CCG for the next financial year.

Also over the past couple of weeks I have been working closely with the project lead for the Integrated Diabetes Care as I have been writing up a post event report for a Networking event that was held last month where providers and suppliers of Diabetes Care across the North West attended. The aim of this event was for the attendees to network and identify how partnerships between their organisations can be formed to help to deliver the Eastern Cheshire Integrated Diabetes Care Service Specification.  The report I am currently assisting to write will provide an outline to the event and set out the next steps for the future of the project as it goes into the procurement stage. Once this report has been written it will be circulated to all of the attendees to read along with the updated service specification.   

In addition I attended another Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) event around Outcomes Based Commissioning. This was a follow up event from a previous one I attended. This session was designed in order to try to develop an Outcomes Based Commissioning approach that all CCG’s could adopt. We also came up with specific outcomes for diabetes and mental health. This session was extremely useful as the group of attendees were smaller than previous events and therefore more in-depth discussions took place. As a result we were able to put a process together as a group that any CCG could adopt and tailor it to any specific condition.