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Welcome to our APC: a step-change in working together, and working differently
A message from Professor Clive Kay, Chief Executive of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Professor Ian Abbs, Chief Executive of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; and Ben Travis, Chief Executive of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to write this introduction to the first of our new e-bulletins about the work taking place across the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative (SEL APC).
The SEL APC may be a relatively new name and concept to some of you - but it is born out of a long history of joint-working between Guy's and St Thomas', King's and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trusts.
We are focused on delivering an ambitious and far-reaching programme for elective and diagnostic recovery. In doing so, we play an instrumental role in ensuring:
- Equitable access to services for all patients. It should not matter where you live or which hospital you are referred to
- All services are safe, high quality and sustainable
- Best use of our resources and taking advantage of economics of scale
- Risks are managed and benefits shared across our system
The pandemic accelerated the importance of closer collaboration between Trusts, with the existing APC structures ensuring we coped with unprecedented numbers of COVID-19 positive patients, as well as coordinating our elective recovery efforts across the three Trusts.
The SEL APC has developed significantly in recent months, and we now have an even stronger infrastructure and governance model in place. This includes a new Committee in Common of the three Trust Boards, which sets our overarching goals and vision.
Our APC also reports to the leadership group of the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS). This recognises the key role that our collaborative is playing in supporting the ICS and all its partners to make the greatest possible contribution to the health and wellbeing of people living in our six boroughs.
This inaugural e-bulletin charts our progress in seeing and treating patients more effectively, and in ever-increasing numbers; it also brings to life examples of how we are continually pushing new boundaries in developing ways of working together. It is just one way we are raising our profile in coming months – a web presence and social media launch are among our next steps.
As well as sharing our success stories, we hope it will also unleash more ideas for blending integration and innovation across South East London; and encourage more people to join our journey and contribute to our future success in a place where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts – enabling us all to deliver better health and care services for local people.
Best wishes,
Clive, Ian and Ben
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At a glance - What is the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative? |
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Who we are, and what we do
OUR partnership brings together, and pools the expertise, of all the NHS Trusts which deliver acute hospital services across South East London. These include:
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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital; Evelina London Children's Hospital; Royal Brompton Hospital, Harefield Hospital; plus community services in Lambeth and Southwark and a number of services at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, including cancer services and a kidney treatment centre. |
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King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - King's College Hospital; Princess Royal University Hospital; Orpington Hospital; plus services operated at Beckenham Beacon and Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. |
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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust - Lewisham Hospital; Queen Elizabeth Hospital; plus community services and services at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. |
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We coordinate the efforts across all these providers, their services and their people in pursuit of the triple aim: Better health for everyone; Better care for all patients; Efficient use of NHS resources.
We have a growing number of clinical networks co-creating home-grown solutions to meet these objectives. These currently include Critical Care, Dental, Endoscopy, ENT, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Imaging, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Pharmacy and Urology.
In addition, we have several dedicated work programmes also improving care through the patient journey. These cover Community Diagnostics Centres, Theatres and Non-Admitted Patients. |
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Trio of major schemes secure £37.8m backing
A GROUND-BREAKING approach to submitting capital funding bids to the Targeted Investment Fund (TIF), coordinated by the APC, has proved a major success.
For the first time ever, we prioritised the bids as a whole system.
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Mutual aid front and central in plan to eliminate 78-week waits
MUTUAL aid between all three of our Trusts - instrumental in virtually eradicating the 104-week waiting list at the end of June - is to be stepped up this year as we focus on repeating this success by aiming to eliminate 78-week waiters.
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Supporting our clinical leaders to champion change
FOR our inaugural Clinical Director, Dr Joanna Johnson, the APC equips clinicians with an unprecedented opportunity to co-create and co-produce solutions that deliver better outcomes for patients.
Joanna has just completed her first six months in the post, which she combines with her role as Clinical Director of the Dental Directorate at Guy's and St Thomas' - and said clinical leadership was core to the APC's future success.
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New initiative unveiled to reduce eye care waiting times and backlog
PLANS developed by our ophthalmology network to speed up waiting times by launching a new testing pathway and opening two new diagnostic centres have been given the go-ahead.
The approach will benefit new glaucoma and medical retina patients, as well as follow-up patients overdue their appointment, across South East London.
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We're hiring! We are always looking to work with the best in the NHS, and would love to have more talented people on board as we accelerate our journey.
So if you, or someone you know, has the skills to join our team and would like to be part of something special, then please check out our latest job opportunities:
Plus, coming soon:
- Secondment opportunity - Senior Programme Manager for the South East London (SEL) High Volume Hub, funded via the APC (band 8c).
This will be a key leadership role with responsibility for planning and driving the successful and timely implementation of the SEL Urology & ENT High Volume Surgical Hub at University Hospital Lewisham.
Further details will be advertised soon - watch this space!
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This e-bulletin is sent on behalf of the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative. Please share it with colleagues or teams who you think may find it of interest. For further information please contact Corporate Communications. |
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