Major changes for London Primary Care Trusts

Written by Joan Davis

Wednesday, 05 May 2010 12:56

Joint working:

NHS London has five sectors. Following on from the appointment of sector chief executives, the proposal is for sectors to recruit full time executives for the areas of strategy, finance, performance and contracting, clinical, communications and public health.

A joint Committee of PCTs will continue to be the formal mechanism through which PCTs collaborate at sector level. The current establishment agreement for JCPCTs will be revised to clarify the decision-making powers that PCT Boards need to delegate to JCPCTs. Sector JCPCTs are expected to reduce membership to a maximum of 14 people. The new establishment agreement will be finalised by the end of April in order that it can be presented to PCT Boards for endorsement no later than end of June 2010

Polysystems:

The eight PCTs in the NW London sector are required to draft plans for polysystems development, to be discussed at a sector-level meeting of communications leads on 4^th May 2010. Board papers note that NW London should learn lessons from elsewhere, in particular North East London Sector, which is among the early implementers of polysystems in the capital – where the public, local community leaders and elected representatives are now actively engaged in high profile local protests against planned or proposed acute sector reconfigurations – and the BM A has joined in with its “London on the Brink” campaign.

Hillingdon PCT hopes to engage with local communities on its own proposals through the local authority, LINk, GP participation groups, the local Youth Forum and Brunel University. Other London PCTs will be undertaking similar discussions.

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