Issue - meetings
Co-commissioning of GP Services
Meeting: 24/03/2016 - Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 37)
37 Co-commissioning of GP Services 
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Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 - Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford and Hastings and Rother CCGs update, item 37
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- Appendix 2 - NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG update, item 37
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- Webcast for Co-commissioning of GP Services
Minutes:
37.1 This item was introduced by Wendy Carberry, Chief Officer, High Weald Lewes Havens CCG; and by Murray King, Associate Director of Strategic Investment, Eastbourne, Hailsham & Seaford and Hastings & Rother CCGs.
37.2 Wendy Carberry told the committee that HWLHCCG was now fully in control of GP commissioning, and that this is progressing well. There is a nationwide shortage of GPs which poses inevitable challenges. One partial solution is to increase the use of non-GPs to take on some GP workload: for example pharmacists based in GP practices.
37.3 Murray King told members that the ESBT programme will address the fragmentation of GP services via an accountable care model and the federation of GP practices. CCG commissioning of GP services is particularly useful because it facilitates localised decision-making.