CCGs “hungry for metrics” to measure engagement

What do you get from in-depth interviews with clinical, management and lay leaders of six 2nd and 3rd wave CCGs about embedding patient and public involvement in their work and what they need to achieve this?  Here’s the answer we  came up with when we did just that in tandem with InHealth Associates.... 
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Doing the right thing wrong

When in doubt about health, “who you gonna call?”  It should be NHS 111. But this communication from the new Wandsworth CCG, launching the new service in mid December makes me doubt that the public will understand what it is and how to use it.   We’ve commented before on the need to “do... 
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December Newsletter – Vale Val

December saw the retirement after 10 years with MAC of founding partner Val Moore. Actually Val’s contribution predates MAC’s establishment in 2003 because as early as mid-2001 she and Andrew Craig were working as a team developing the NCC’s Stronger Voice consumer representative training package... 
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CCG driving seat is shared space

Is this seat taken? If you mean the much-touted “CCG driving seat”, then definitely “yes”.  The driving seat for this commissioning road trip is “shared space”.  According to Pulse, that’s a reason for wailing and rending of garments.  It surveyed 100 CCGs (out of 212) and found... 
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Give ‘em the DES cash – We name the Wandsworth practices who’ve earned it

Locally there is £407,000 worth of extra dosh available to the 46 Wandsworth GP practices this year and the same again next. All they have to do is demonstrate that they have got  some basic building blocks of patient engagement in place and they can collect £1.10 per patient.  Serious money in... 
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Authorisation about us, but without us

Small may be beautiful, but “size matters”. That’s is the inescapable conclusion of the news that 1 in 7 CCGs (clinical commissioning groups, formerly known as GP consortia) are too small for authorisation.  Health Service Journal reckons that 47 CCGs have fewer than 50,000 patients; some... 
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Data deluge coming – start paddling lessons now

As part of its much-vaunted  efforts to incentivise  public service consumers (that means you and me) to make better choices and demand higher standards – something MAC applauds -  The Cabinet Office announced last week that sets of performance indicators would be available covering health, schools,... 
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Just saying “no” won’t do

Yesterday about 85 people from around Wandsworth gathered with our pathfinder consortium leaders to discuss what good commissioning and meaningful patient and public participation could and should look like locally.  There is no doubt local people are keen to be involved from the outset in the changes... 
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Wandsworth Memory Bank for Patient and Public Involvement

THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND WILL BE LAUNCHED ON 1 APRIL 2013 TO COINCIDE WITH THE GO LIVE FOR WANDSWORTH CCG.  MAC has been active in Wandsworth in a range of patient and public involvement and engagement activities since 2001 when Valerie Moore and Andrew Craig worked with the Council, local... 
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