Annual General Meeting (AGM) – NHS South West London Integrated Care Board
The NHS South West London Integrated Care Board Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place on Monday 25 September 2023 at Everyday Church Wimbledon.
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About this report
The NHS South West London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Annual Report for April, May and June 2022 has been produced in response to the NHS England requirements as published in the Department of Health and Social Care Group Accounting Manual 2021/22. The structure closely follows that outlined in the guidance and includes three core sections:
- Performance Report – including an overview, performance analysis and performance measures
- Accountability Report – including the members’ report, corporate governance report, annual governance statement, remuneration and staff report
- Annual Accounts – including the independent auditor’s report and financial statements
This report has been approved for submission by the Board of NHS South West London Integrated Care Board as the inheriting body of the functions of NHS South West London Clinical Commissioning Group.
All the content has been checked for accuracy and consistency with reporting data sources and to make sure that all requirements are met by our auditors.
Welcome and overview from the Clinical Chair and Accountable Officer
Welcome to the final annual report for South West London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). This report is a record of our work in the final three months of the CCG, April, May and June 2022, before the establishment of NHS South West London Integrated Care Board on 1 July 2002. The new Integrated Care Board now oversees the planning and funding of health services in South West London and has taken on many of the core functions previously delivered by the CCG.
Becoming an Integrated Care System (ICS)
Nationally, ICSs launch date was pushed back three months to 1 July 2022 to allow systems across the country to make the final arrangements to take on their statutory duties with a firm footing. In South West London we are proud to now be operating as a new Integrated Care System, with both our Integrated Care Board and Integrated Care Partnership working together to improve health and care across our boroughs.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the NHS in South West London, local councils and the voluntary sector demonstrated what we can achieve by working together, quickly identifying and supporting those at greatest risk. We know that by working together with a shared ambition to help our communities thrive, we can achieve the best for everyone.
The clinical leadership that has been the cornerstone of the CCG will continue to drive our Primary Care Networks, leading the design and delivery of integrated services in their local area to improve quality and access to health and care services, and working with clinical networks and provider collaboratives to benefit from working at scale.
We are fortunate to have such strong relationships with our partners forged through hard work over a long time. Our ICS will build on these partnerships including all parts of the NHS – primary care, community services and hospitals – and local authorities and the community and voluntary sector.
Thank you to CCG staff, our Governing Body and GP members for your commitment and contribution to the success of the CCG and for the proud legacy that we will build on in the coming years.
Delivering the Covid-19 vaccination programme
The Covid-19 vaccination programme has been the biggest vaccination programme ever delivered by the NHS and we have been a top performer in London throughout, delivering over 3 million jabs by July 2022. In the course of the programme we strengthened relationships with our communities and found new ways to make getting vaccinated more accessible for people who don’t normally engage with health services.
We are grateful to GPs, nurses, pharmacists, volunteers and CCG staff who are delivering the vaccination programme, and the community and faith leaders and the voluntary organisations whose work with us has significantly reduced the impact of this pandemic on our communities in South West London.
Our other priorities
Responding to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and delivering the vaccination programme were major areas of focus for the CCG but alongside these we continued our work to address the health needs of local communities; to catch up on the back log of diagnostics and treatments delayed because of Covid-19; and to further develop our ability to deliver health and care in partnership with our ICS partners.
Engaging communities and addressing health inequalities
We made good progress on our approaches to addressing health inequalities, but recognise we have a great deal more work to do. We deepened our understanding of the current challenges and adopted more systematic ways to use data.
Primary care developments
Primary care networks (PCNs) continued to play an essential role in delivering the Covid-19 vaccination programme, running local vaccination centres; vaccinating in care homes; and vaccinating the most clinically vulnerable groups.
Through the PCNs, primary care also played a major part in establishing our Population Health Management programme, working with local communities to identify barriers to accessing health and care and to develop new services for those who need them most.
Service recovery and improving access following Covid-19
The pandemic contributed to the continued pressures that we have seen on NHS services. Ensuring that vital non-Covid NHS services were available to those who needed them remained a priority for us. Health and care organisations collaborated across South West London to increase capacity and our clinicians continued to lead the work to find new and better ways to make services more efficient and effective for patients.
Responding to the mental health crisis
We know people’s emotional health and wellbeing was affected by the pandemic and demand for support increased, especially for children and young people’s mental health services. We have worked with mental health service providers to focus on prevention and early intervention and develop capacity to further support local people. Services such as crisis cafés and health and wellbeing spaces have helped patients without the need for them to go into hospital.
Transforming care, joining up services and preventing ill health
Some of the work to improve care out of hospital was accelerated because of the need to keep patients safe and reduce pressure on hospital services during the Covid pandemic. In this report we have highlighted some of the many initiatives introduced in the past year to support priority work programmes.
Finally, we wanted to mark this final annual report by thanking our Governing Body, GP members and staff for how they adapted over the life of the CCG to being in a new organisation while responding to a global pandemic. Their ability to lead and respond in unknown and changing circumstances to meet the needs of our communities demonstrated the very best of what NHS staff can do.
Sarah Blow
Accountable Officer
NHS South West London Clinical Commissioning Group