Lambeth

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Lambeth SouthwarkChlamydia Screening
Programme How it works for us
Rumbi Mugezi, Southwark Coordinator Meroe
Bleasdille, Lambeth Coordinator
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Presentation Overview

• Defining the termConsortium
• How our organisational and programme structures
  support core service engagement
• Sustaining programme activities
• Questions and Answers
• Application of knowledge

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What is a consortium?

• Noun (pl. consortia /k nsorti / or consortiums)
  an association, typically of several companies.
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The Organisational Structure
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Programme Roles and Responsibilities

• Administrators
• Responsible for organising and implementing the
  administrative duties of the Chlamydia Screening
  Programme across Lambeth and Southwark
• Provide appropriate support to the CSP
  Coordinators, Programme Lead, Health Protection
  Agency (HPA) and allied programme professionals
  to ensure programme delivery is timely and
  consistent
• Commissioner
• Strategic role
• Attends all strategic meetings and cascades
  information to coordinators
• Manages the CSP budget and inform coordinators of
  their annual non-pay entitlements
• Negotiates the terms of business for large
  contracts e.g. Brook and CRSH

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General Coordinator Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinators
• Oversee all operational matters relating to the
  CSP
• Attend all operational meetings (internal and
  external)
• Attend some strategic meetings
• Monitor the performance of all screening venues
  against LDP trajectories and locally set targets
• Feedback programme performance to strategic
  levels
• Consult senior levels when deciding the
  operational direction of the programme

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Coordinator Specific Roles and Responsibilities

• Lambeth Chlamydia Screening Coordinator
• Non-clinical Operational Lead
• Creating and reviewing the programmes monitoring
  and evaluation system
• Writing programme policies and proposals
• Recruiting outreach sites
• Devising and overseeing the implementation of
  media and comms strategies

• Southwark Chlamydia Screening Coordinator
• Clinical Operational Lead
• Creating and reviewing clinical
• pathways for programme
• Recruiting clinical sites e.g. acute and abortion
  services
• Resolving Laboratory issues and auditing lab
  performance
• Overseeing management of results across both
  programme areas

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Keeping Key Stakeholders Informed

• Strategic
• Quarterly progress/performance review meetings
• Operational
• Bi-Monthly operational and action planning
  meetings
• Attend other stakeholder meetings
• Administrative
• Fortnightly CSO team meetings

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LS Programme Structure
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Lambeth Southwark CSP
Community Sexual Health Clinics
General Practices
Core Services
Brook Services
Community Pharmacies
Antenatal Services
Acute Hospital Services
Non-Core Services
Website
Outreach Services
TOP services
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Treatment Sites Partner Notification

• Most core services provide treatment and partner
  notification
• 12 out of 70 pharmacies provide treatment and
  partner notification
• All clients that attending non-core services are
  directly or indirectly signposted to core
  services for treatment
• CSO follow-up core services regarding treatment
  and partner notification information

Core Services
Non- Core Services
CSO
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Core Services Incentives

• General Practice
• PCT based LES
• Target threshold based
• Targets set on cohort size
• Pharmacy
• Incentives included in EHC consultations fees

• Commissioned Services
• Community sexual health services
• Brook Young peoples services

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Engaging GPs

• Recruiting and selecting the right Dr as a
  Chlamydia Champion is only a fraction of the work
• Ensure that the CSO and GP Champion communicate
  regularly and their roles and responsibilities
  are clear

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Top Tips

• Regular communication (verbal or written)
• Develop rapport within the CSO team
• Develop rapport with service providers service
  users
• Utilise data sources e.g SELHPU
• Cascade information to appropriate people and
  consult each other in decision making processes
  particularly pertaining to CSP
• Clear Roles and Responsibilities
• Locally Set trajectories v nationally set
  trajectories
• Action planning and reviews should be done in
  unison
• Having clearly defined protocols that can be
  utilised in the absence of team members

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Its you who decides how hard your job should be.

• Good Luck!