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The 7House team is made up of highly skilled business developers who are well versed in strategic and operational business development activity.
We are supported by our proven and trusted associates who provides us with the necessary support to provide a fully equipped offering.
7House Team
- Craig Millhouse
- John Cable
- John Hawley
- Martin Land
- Adam Hoyle
- Tony Watson
- Mark Williams
- Andy Proudfoot
- Caroline Alexander
- Rebecca Brown
- Rebecca Tregarthen
- Rosemary Wells
- Philip Chalk
- Alison Benney
- Helen Hammond
- James Read
- Nadia Badman
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Competition and Patient Choice are gathering speed
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The summer continues to see events unfold within the NHS - this newsletter focusses on the strengthening case for patient choice and competition for routine elective care. As a team, we are encouraged by this, as there was scope post the Government's response to the NHS Future Forum to blur the reform vision and pad out the delivery timetable.
By way of a summary, we have extracted the key headlines of two key publications that have come out over the last month, by the Co-operation & Competition Panel (CCP), that supports increased competition for providers within the NHS:
- CCP report on Any Qualified Provider (AQP) - key recommendations (published 28th July)
- Operational Guidelines to the NHS - extending patient choice of provider (published 20th July)
Both reports provide a clear indication that an increased choice of provider will be critical to underpin patient choice for community and mental health services during 2012/13.
By October this year, Commissioners from the newly formed PCT clusters, will be expected to have identitfied three or more services from the above areas to implement patient choice using AQP.
We have listed below some of the service areas most likely to be chosen by the Commissioners - however it is important to point out that each local health economy will choose its own services based on local priorities.
Do you know those services areas likely to be chosen for your business location(s)?
At 7House we see this as good news for private providers who:
- Are seeking, for the first time, to enter in to the NHS market to deliver (in the first instance) community services; or
- Have tried in the past but failed.
The reason being is that the process for commissioning will be more transparent - providing you are on a level playing field in terms of price and quality, your chance of success is as good as the next (existing or new) provider when contracts come to be renewed or, in some cases, first let...
At 7House we can support you by:
- Defining your market and NHS targets
- Defining/ re-aligning your services/ pathways to the new NHS market
- Delivering the services/ pathways to the Commissioners pre-bid
- Building relationships with the relevant senior Commissioning teams
- From the above activity, supporting in winning new work through effective bids
Should you require further conversation or clarity around the reports or more generally, feel free to contact us on 01225 731430.
Craig Millhouse
Managing Director
7House
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CCP report on Any Qualified Provider (AQP)
Key recommendations:
Patients are to get greater choice over a host of community services as part of the Government push to increase competition in the NHS in England.
Ministers want to extend choice to treatments such as podiatry, hearing services and counselling from 2012. This will lead to greater opportunities for charities, social enterprises and private firms to get NHS work - inevitably this has prompted accusations of privatisation;
Non-NHS groups are already involved in some community services, but patients are often given little say over whether they can use them or
not as it is largely dependent on what contracts the local health service has in place.
By September 2012, patients should be given choice over at least three community services which could also include back and neck care, diagnostic testing, wheelchair services and wound healing under the Department of Health directive;
In time, this could be extended to other areas such as home chemotherapy, the Department of Health said.
Officials have played down the opportunity for the private sector to greatly expand its role, pointing out that just 200,000 of the 4.6 million hospital operations actioned each year are performed by the private sector - five years after that policy started being rolled out.
For further information please call Craig on 07789 753 714
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Operational Guidance to the NHS - extending patient choice of provider
In summary, the Co-operation & Competition Panel (CCP) have made a number of recommendations to improve the operation of patient choice and competition in routine elective care. Here are a few of them:
- The CCP has recommended that commissioners review their existing practices in relation to restrictions on patient choice and competition, and take steps to bring themselves into compliance with the Principles and Rules.
- The CCP has recommended that commissioners be required to approve any such restrictions at Board level, and annually publish (eg as part of their annual report or statement of commissioning intentions) details of any restrictions on patient choice they have adopted, the underlying rationale for the restriction, an analysis of its impact and terms of the restriction, including the period for which it will operate.
- The CCP has recommended that the Department of Health reviews the rationale for the Activity Planning provisions in the Standard Acute Contract, and if these provisions remain necessary assess whether amendments could be made to make these provisions less susceptible to being used to restrict patient choice and competition.
For the full listing of the key recommendations by the CCP, please go to the press release section of our website at www.7House.co.uk
Or, for a direct conversation, please call Craig on 07789 753 714.
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COMMUNITY/ MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Some of the likely service areas that will be implemented using AQP during 2012/13:
- Musculo-skeletal services for back and neck pain
- Adult hearing services in the community
- Continence services (adults and children)
- Diagnostic tests closer to home such as some types of imaging, cardiac and respiratory investigations to support primary assessment of presenting symptoms
- Wheelchair services (children)
- Podiatry services
- Venous leg ulcer and wound healing
- Primary Care Psychological Therapies (adults)
Commissioners, supported by Pathfinder Clinical Commissioning Groups will have the right to choose three or more services (listed above or otherwise) that are most needed for their local health economies - under the community and mental health services banner.
The timeframe for this 'choosing exercise' is to be completed by October 2011.
Do you know those services areas likely to be chosen for your business location(s)? We can support you in this... |
How to contact us:
Nadia Badman on:
T: 01225 731432
Or Craig Millhouse on:
M: 07789 753714
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