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Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group (HVCCG)
What is Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group (HVCCG)?
Clinical commissioning groups will become responsible for commissioning (purchasing) most
health services on behalf of local people when primary care trusts are abolished in April
2013. HVCCG comprises 70 GP practices in Dacorum, Hertsmere, St Albans and Harpenden,
Watford and Three Rivers and commission health services on behalf of almost 600,000
patients and carers registered at these practices.
Our budget for 2012/13 is £634 million and we will spend this on:
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Hospital health services
Emergency care including the ambulance service
Community health services – district nursing, health visitors, therapists
Mental health services
Continuing healthcare
GP prescribing
From 1 April 2013, responsibility for commissioning primary care – services provided by GPs,
dentists, community pharmacists and optometrists - will sit with the NHS Commissioning
Board (NHS CB). The NHS CB will also be responsible for commissioning specialist services
and prison healthcare – amongst others.
The health of our local population
The health of our local population is generally better than the England average and
deprivation is lower than average, however, more than 16,000 children live in poverty.
While our life expectancy for both men and women is higher than the England average it is
nearly 8 years lower for men and 5.9 years lower for women in the most deprived areas.
Our mortality rates have fallen and early death rates from cancer, heart disease and stroke
are better than the England average.
We have some specific challenges around alcohol consumption, smoking and obesity:
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14.9% of Year 6 children are classified as obese
Around 20% of adults smoke
19.6% of adults are obese
There were 6559 hospital stays for alcohol related harm in 2009/10 and there are about
700 deaths from smoking each year
Priorities
As well as a number of public health priorities that are in alignment with those of
Hertfordshire’s Health and Wellbeing Board our priorities are:
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Preventing people from dying prematurely
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Enhancing quality of life for people with long term conditions
Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following injury
Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care
Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from
avoidable harm
Ensuring people have access to appropriate unplanned health services
Aims
Our aims are:
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To strengthen clinical involvement in decision making for health within west
Hertfordshire.
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To ensure safe, affordable and effective services are provided when and where they are
needed most
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To ensure equity and fairness in our commissioning outcomes
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To encourage consistent two-way communication with local people, GPs and others to
listen to their needs and views on west Hertfordshire’s health services
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To provide patients and the public with the information they need to take more control
over their health and health services
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To make best use of evidence based practice to help us to make objective decisions
concerning healthcare and health services
Our Board
Our Board is made up of local GPs, a nurse, a secondary care clinician, patient
representatives along with executive and non executive directors. They are:
Dr Nicolas Small
Dr Alastair Vincent
Dr Trevor Fernandes
Dr Keith Hodge
Dr Clair Moring
Dr Rami Eliad
Dr Phil Griffin
Dr Richard Pile
Dr Robert Ghosh
Jan Norman
James Crampton
Joan Manning
Nicola Bell
Alan Warren
Paul Smith
Chair, Hertsmere GP
Hertsmere GP
Deputy GP Chair, Dacorum GP
Dacorum GP
Watford and Three Rivers GP
Watford and Three Rivers GPs
St Albans and Harpenden GP
St Albans and Harpenden GP
Secondary Care Doctor
Board Nurse
Patient representative
LINk/HealthWatch representative
Interim Chief Accountable Officer
Chief Finance Officer
Non executive director
Our commitment to patient and public involvement
We now have more than one thousand people who have said they want to find out more or
who want to get involved in commissioning local health services. Just over 800 people have
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signed up to receive our newsletters; another 60 have joined our reader panel (people who
read and comment on publications and who participate in user testing of our website) and
another 150 who have expressed an interest in getting involved in a specific service such as
diabetes or cancer.
We have patient and LINk/HealthWatch representatives on our Board and have embarked
on a rolling programme of conversation events to focus on local issues and to identify ways
where commissioners and patients, carers, the public and local organisations can work
together to improve and enhance local health services to meet the needs of our population.
Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group
c/o Charter House
Parkway
Welwyn Garden City
AL8 6JL
www.hertsvalleysccg.nhs.uk
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