Managers asked for feedback on reforms
 The Department of Health’s Peter Blythin is meeting radiographers to gather views and feedback on reforms in the NHS.
The clinical adviser to the health reform programme is working with Chief Health Professions Officer Kay East to determine the important issues for AHPs. Over the past months, Peter has attended meetings of AHP leads and is also speaking with local groups across the country.
He said: “I’m here to make clinicians’ voices heard at a policy level. I’m not their representative, but I can act as a conduit, raising relevant issues with the policy team and bringing information back to staff on the frontline.”
The results will feed into the health reform policy documents due to be released in July. Peter is keen to stress that the documents are still under development so there is still plenty of opportunity to help shape them.
As well as meeting with groups, Peter is inviting comments and feedback from individual AHPs. He is keen to receive feedback and ideas about the reforms outlined in the Health Reform: Update and Next Steps document, published in December, including areas where there are barriers to reforms or a lack of clear guidance. Of particular relevance to AHPs are the details of the commissioning framework, the role of the independent sector, and payment by results.
Peter also wants to hear from AHPs about details of good practice, for example innovative ways of managing services, involving patients, or working in partnership across organisational boundaries.
So far, AHPs have given Peter some clear messages. They are keen to understand more about the scale and pace of reform, how the different workstreams fit together, and the potential for entrepreneurial developments.
Other concerns and requests include:
- More support to help develop commissioning skills at PCT level;
- Unbundling of PBR tariffs;
- More involvement of social care staff to support reforms such as avoiding hospital admission;
- Involvement of patients and carers in the development of new policy advice;
- Simplification and rationalisation of current governance and inspection arrangements;
- Greater freedom to interpret policy in line with local needs.
Links and info
E-mail Peter Blythin with feedback and information.
Click here for Health Reform in England: Update and Next Steps.
A health reform website for practitioners provides a further opportunity for feedback, as well as providing news and updates on the reform programme.
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