Shaping Health and Wellbeing in Herefordshire
Process
In developing options for how health and social care is provided for the future, a number of workgroups have been established. The workgroups feeding into the steering group will focus on eight themes:
1. Maternity and newborn
2. Children's health
3. Staying healthy and independent
4. Long-term conditions
5. Urgent and emergency care
6. Planned care
7. Mental health and dementia
8. End of life care
A wider group of stakeholder groups and individuals will develop, discuss and agree a set of success criteria.
Against these criteria, the possible options for how services could be provided will be formulated and assessed. The plan is to have the options identified by August 2008.
External advice has been commissioned from the University of Birmingham's Health Service Management Centre to work with Herefordshire Primary Care Trust, Herefordshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Herefordshire Council to ensure that provider services are fit for purpose and organised in sustainable configurations that are able to both drive service improvement and deliver real efficiency for the benefit of local people.