Creating a Healthy Oxfordshire

NHS Oxfordshire is holding an event on 29 October about the future of health services in Oxfordshire - for further information on the day and to register to attend please click here

 

 

Following on from work started last year, NHS organisations and the Local and District Councils in Oxfordshire are working together to ensure we can provide high quality sustainable health and social care services in the future. Society is changing so health and social care systems need to change to respond to increasing demand, patient expectations and advances in technology and medicines. Our challenge is to ensure the highest quality care for all of our patients within the finite resources we receive. As a whole health and social care system we need to improve the quality and value for money of health services provided in Oxfordshire in a way that will keep the system in financial balance. This will involve redesigning the wide range of health care services currently provided throughout Oxfordshire. Creating a Healthy Oxfordshire, the county wide programme which will address this, will look at making changes to areas of healthcare within Oxfordshire that improve services and get value for money.

These include:

  • Helping people to help themselves, prevent ill-health and hospital admissions.
  • Integrating health and social care teams in the community to ensure patients can access the right treatment when they need it.
  • Reviewing delivery of hospital care and bringing care closer to home, when it is clinically appropriate.
  • Developing GP and associated services in the community.
  • Reviewing the provision of services that are shown to be clinically ineffective and inefficient.

We are involving staff, GPs, clinicians and healthcare professionals in this work to ensure decisions are based on clinical evidence and we will be looking for feedback from the public on the work of the programme and proposed changes to services. As such an area of work that will underpin Creating a Healthy Oxfordshire is how we involve the public in the decisions we make about changes to treatments and health and social care services. Whilst this list is not exhaustive we aim to do this through talking to established patient and community groups; through NHS Oxfordshire’s online consultation system - Talking Health, meeting with patients and carers who are using services; patient reference groups and in-depth focus groups. More details will follow on this page as the work progresses.

If you would like to have a say about this area of work please register on Talking Health