Governing Body report
Paper: 5.3
Date
1 July 2014
Title of paper
Commissioning Learning Sets report
Presenter
Dr Rachael Garner, WLCCG
Author
Romi Bose, Locality Manager
Responsible Director
Simon Hope, Deputy Managing Director
Clinical Lead
Dr Rachael Garner, Chair CLS Leads Group
Confidential
No
The Governing body is asked to:
Note the contents of the report.
Summary of purpose and scope of report
This report provides an overview of the key points of discussion at the CLS meetings in May 2014 and June 2014.
The main agenda items were as follows:
•
May: Launch of Community Diabetes Service, Community MSK Service, CLS plan 14/15, Primary Care
Navigators.
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June: Prescribing Standardisation Scheme, CLCH Update regarding podiatry and St Charles Hospital UCC,
Primary Care Strategy Update
Soft Intelligence:
May
NE CLS
Long waits at the memory clinic with some patients needing re-referral for annual review.
Action:
Locality Manager to raise concerns with the CCG's commissioner of the Memory Clinic.
NE CLS
MSK would not accept a referral by fax when choose and book was down. The service does not seem
to refer patients on when needed but instead sends them back to their GP to refer. A patient with
chronic renal disease was rejected on the basis that not much could be done for the patient. GP
unsure of where to go next.
Action:
To raise with MSK team at CLS meeting.
NC CLS
There is an issue with CLCH’s Single Point of Access – staff finding it hard to get through over the
phone.
Action:
CLCH attending June CLS and this issue to be raised directly with them.
NC CLS
There also appear to be a large amount of duplicate imaging results being sent from St Mary’s to
Practices and long waits for call back from the ‘Itchy Sneezy Wheezy ‘service.
SE CLS
Memory Clinic seems to be not meeting some patient’s needs. There are also reported long waits.
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Action
LM to raise with memory clinic commissioner
June
NE CLS
Practices have had to re-refer MSK patients more than once. Example of last case: A patient was
discharged without being seen due to the patient not being able to commit to any dates. A
discharge letter was sent to A GP.
Action
MSK team to look into this case once the GP has sent details to MSK team
NW CLS
Practices have experienced some problems with antenatal bookings, due to new server (Cerner) at
Imperial.
Action
Kate Glass to ensure that CAB has gone live again.
Update
Memory Service: Issues raised around the memory service were the quality of the assessment and
diagnosis. the impression that some team members were inexperienced, and Practices not receiving
letters after patients have been seen
Response
All initial assessments undertaken by principal psychologist; with trainee psychologist assisting
occasionally. Development of a range of interventions for newly diagnosed patients. Recruited a
support worker, who will oversee sending in requests, FU appointments and chasing all reports.
Developing a database to track all appointments. Looking to address any phlebotomy concerns and
streamline the processes. Implementing a communication pathway for GPs and will include giving
talks to GP groups. KCW Memory Service was accredited with Excellent for assessing and diagnosis
and received full accreditation for psychosocial interventions
Hot Topics:
June
NE - Some practices are concerned with dosset box management in Pharmacy.
Action: Locality Manager to contact NHS England as contract lead for Pharmacy contracts.
Update from Imperial:
Kate Glass attended to update on work at Imperial and answer any outstanding queries. She also formally apologised
for the fact that the Woodfield Road site had been closed. Imperial are doing patient surveys around the midwifery
department and would like specific feedback from practices. A template will be sent to Practices from Imperial for
Practices to feedback about their experiences.
Community Diabetes:
The community diabetes team attended the May CLSs to launch to introduce the new diabetes service – for 1 June
2014. Clinicians discussed the criteria for referral to service, inclusion of podiatry and referral pathways for podiatry
for both diabetic and non-diabetic patients. Clarity is needed on the referral form.
Community MSK service:
The community MSK team attended all the CLSs in May. This generated much discussion as Practices put forward
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their concerns with the service. The community MSK team clarified the purpose of the service, what the service
offered and referral criteria for the service. Interesting points raised by the service were:

West London Community MSK Service triages referrals for MSK Orthopaedics and MSK Pain (MSK
Rheumatology soon)

Service receives approximately 1200 referrals per month

On average 6% of referrals are directed to secondary care specialties (patient chooses provider)

94% managed in Community MSK and only patients appropriate for secondary care intervention are referred
on (and usually with relevant diagnostics already worked-up)
CLS Plan in 2014/15:
The CLS plan was re-iterated at the May CLS meetings. Practices informed that the plan has had final sign off by NHS
England & LMC prior to launching and that it would also be part of the May WLCCG bulletin. Practices were once
again reminded of the core elements and in particular were asked what they would want to see from their buddy
visits. Comments included a process to work together as part of business continuity planning. Shared dissemination
of LES/DES information- splitting of the documents into half and each practice informing the other of the bullet
points/how to implement the LES/DES that they are keeping an eye on.
Again, the general feeling that targets for community services are too high in particular the MSK target.
Primary Care Navigators:
Practices were advised regarding the role, scope and coverage of Primary Care Navigators (PCN) across the patch.
Currently, there are 11 PCNs in 21 GP practices and a 2nd wave of recruitment will add another 4 PCNs in July.
Practices who do not yet have PCN’s and felt that they would want them in their practices were advised to contact
Kalwant Sahota PPE Officer to register their interest in PCN allocation. PCN requests will be collated and sent to Age
UK K&C PCN Team Leader, who will then arrange a meeting with the practice to allocate a PCN.
Prescribing Standardisation Scheme:
Practices were advised of the Prescribing Incentive Scheme for the year, focussed around agreeing an improvement
and a QIPP action plan and engaging in a progress review.
Practices were also presented with quality markers for volume of antibiotics, first line antibiotics, volume of NSAIDS
prescribing and graphs showing targets for minimising percentage of diclofenac and COX-2 inhibitor prescribing.
Practice will be asked to Choose from 2 out of the 3 topics below to audit:
Anti-epileptic brand prescribing
Ezetimibe
Nitrofurantoin in kidney disease
Practices were also presented with a compendium of medicines and prescribing optimisation opportunities that
were recently updated by the medicines management team. These included blood glucose testing, insulin pen
needles, pregabalin, Ca and vitamin D3 and PDE5 inhibitors for ED.
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CLCH Update:
An update on St Charles Urgent Care Centre was delivered to the CLSs which described a transformation plan
managing patients with flexible staffing to meet peaks and troughs of demand. In addition these changes would lead
to improving redirection of patients back to practices where urgent care is not required. They are moving to System
One for the 1st August, 2014. With regards to podiatry there has been a completed consultation for a unified
podiatry service across all boroughs. There has also been completion of integration of podiatry into the diabetes
services and a significant reduction in DNAs over the last 12 months from an initial 9%; now down at 5%. Average
waiting times from 50 days down to 27 days and an overall improvements in patient experiences.
WLCCG Whole Systems Integrated Care Early Adopters update:
CLS members were presented with the keypoints of the outline business case for whole systems over 75s. Concern
was expressed about the threat to the generalist role of the GP, the extent to which patients have been involved in
the outline business case and the implications for primary care workload. There were calls for clarity over the
funding of whole systems and some practices said that they would like to continue to have patients over 75
registered with them but make use of the proposed North and South Integrated care hubs.
Concerns were raised around the whole systems concept by Practices. These concerns dealt with capacity and
capability to deliver within current general practice, finance and governance issues. There was also significant
concern about loss of practice income if patient capitation was deducted and the possible reluctance of patients to
accept any changes in their care pathways. GPs wanted more stakeholder engagement as they felt they did not have
enough understanding and knowledge of how the system was being developed, the reasons behind this project and
their role in the pathways being proposed.
Quality & Safety/ Patient Engagement/ Impact on patient services:
N/A
Financial and resource implications
N/A
Equality / Human Rights / Privacy impact analysis
N/A
Risk
N/A
Supporting documents
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Committee name
Date discussed
Outcome
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