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Five weeks pass by in a blink of an eye
Christmas already is a distant memory as the first five weeks of the new year have sailed by however there has been some excellent progress on a number of fronts. As we gear up to becoming a single CCG covering the city of Leeds from 1 April 2018, there’s been some significant developments. By the […]
Developing a shared purpose
I’ve realised it has been a while since my last blog and I wanted to start this one off by acknowledging the great work that has gone on behind the scenes. The Leeds CCGs undertook a review called ‘One Voice’ to explore a single commissioning approach for health and care services in the city. I […]
North Leeds Medical Practice Patient Participation Group – Diabetes Day on Saturday 18 March
What a wonderful day! Six members of our Patient Participation Group (PPG) offered to help when we held our second Diabetes Day at Milan Street surgery. The first one we held didn’t bring forth many patients, as we had to rely on one large poster, advertising in local shops and leaflets in the surgery to […]
From sprints to tiring climbs
As I get ready for my cycling challenge I realised my training regime reflects work in changing the Leeds health and care system to enable it to be in the best shape possible. No matter what the future might hold, and whatever pressures the system is under, there’s some fundamentals we must always get right. […]
‘Experiencing the NHS for myself’
I’m positive that we all do our best to avoid kicking up a fuss but sometimes it is necessary for us. When this happens though I always worry about how I might be putting people out, or what impact I am having on someone. Whenever I am unwell, I do my best to self-care, look […]
Championing the patient voice at the General Practice at Scale conference
I volunteered (at fairly short notice) to attend the General Practice at Scale conference, organised by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and NHS England, to speak about the way that NHS Leeds West CCG involves patient leaders/champions. I was in London the day before, so stayed over and arrived bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at […]
Can Santa deliver for the NHS
All I want for Christmas is….integrated care wrapped around communities and individual patients. Here’s hoping Santa can help us out although he may have to fight dissenting elves and reindeers who’ve lost their bearing. My ideal present is simple enough. If it wasn’t for the Grinch who has stolen the one system spirit and bought […]
Tell me something I don’t know!
The Realising the Value programme is designed to ‘develop the field of person and community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing by building the evidence base and developing tools, resources and networks to support the spread and increase the impact of key approaches.’ To you and me this simply means that a bunch of folk, who […]
No such thing as ‘normal’
Personally, I’m not a fan of the word ‘normal’. Looking around the offices of NHS Leeds West CCG, I can’t see anyone who you could describe as “normal” in a more traditional sense; no two people are the same. As a total sum of their being – physically, mentally, hobbies, interests, I could go on. […]
Challenge accepted!
At the end of April I’m going to be taking part in another gruelling (for me) cycling challenge, but before I do that there’s plenty of challenges within the system we need to address. I recently attended a national briefing led by Simon Stevens, Chief Executive for NHS England and Jim Mackey, Chief Executive for […]