| Frinton Residents' Association |
| | NOTES of a Half-Yearly Meeting held in the McGrigor Hall on |
| | 20 October 2012 | at | 10:00 AM |
| | Present: The President, Chairman, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, and 7 other Committee |
| | members, 3 speakers, 3 other guests including Councillors and a Police Sergeant, together with 34 |
| | Association members and 4 Friends making a total of 56 attendees who signed in |
| | 1 | INTRODUCTION |
| | The Chairman welcomed everyone to the meeting, introduced the Committee members and |
| | thanked them for all the hard work they do, stressing that they all give up their time free of |
| | charge. |
| | 2 | APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE |
| | Apologies had been received from Douglas Carswell MP, Councillors Mick Page, David Lines, |
| | Mark Platt, Giles & Vanda Watling, Committee members Caroline Blackler, Peter Leaman and |
| | his wife Elizabeth, and FRA members Dr Steven Porter and Anita Walling. |
| | 3 | HEALTH ISSUES |
| | The Chairman introduced Dr Gary Sweeney (DrGS), Chairman of the Clinical Commissioning |
| | Group for North East Essex, who was providing a presentation entitled 'Shared Challenges in |
| | the new NHS'. |
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| | DrGS thanked the FRA for the invitation to speak at today’s meeting, explained that he had been |
| | a GP in Clacton for 25 years during which time there had been lots of changes and that he had |
| | been involved in NHS management issues for approximately 20 years. |
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| | Today he was going to explain the new format of the North East Essex Clinical Commissioning |
| | Group. The last time he had spoken to the FRA (eighteen months ago) the Act was still a Bill, |
| | but now progress had been made. He pointed out that although the Conservative Government |
| | had stated no top down re-organisation of the NHS, the biggest re-organisation since 1948 has |
| | taken place. However, he believed they were on the right track and as he worked his way |
| | through 12 slides, he explained the reasons why. |
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| | 3.1. DrGS provided an introduction to the presentation, which would include roles and |
| | responsibilities of the North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) (Who they were), |
| | their priorities for Health and Wellbeing, how the new NHS arrangements fitted together, and |
| | how we can all work together to make things better. |
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| | 3.2. Health Care Commissioning |
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| | DrGS explained that health care commissioning involved buying-in the services required: |
| | producing a specification, finding providers, selecting and entering into a contract, and then |
| | monitoring the contract, ie we carry out assessments of health needs, see what we have got, |
| | find the gap, draw up a specification, go out into the NHS market procurement arena, select a |
| | provider, monitor performance indicators and if we do not get the quality required, we go back to |
| | the supplier and impose penalties. This is known as the Commissioning Cycle. |
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| | 3.3. North East Essex CCG |
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| | He stated that the objectives of North East Essex CCG were to make the right choices and they |
| | needed to get the users of the services involved in order to do so, adding that they were |
| | fortunate in that they already had good clinical practice in the care group. Fourteen clinicians (all |
| | from local GP Practices) had been elected. From April 2012 the CCG had been formally |
| | delegated authority from the PCT Board to undertake this work until the PCT disappeared in April |
| | 2013. The team being led by clinicians includes GPs, nurses, lay members, representatives |
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