Heather Darlow Corporate Governance Manager

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NHSLA Pilot SiteLeicestershire County and
Rutland PCT

• Heather Darlow Corporate Governance Manager
• Craig Sharples Risk Manager

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Who are We?

• A new single NHS PCT covering the counties of
  Leicestershire and Rutland came into being on 1
  October 2006 as part of moves to ensure that the
  NHS locally is well placed to deliver what
  patients want more choice about their care and
  treatment, speedy access to services, and care
  provided close to home
• The new Leicestershire County and Rutland Primary
  Care Trust replaced Charnwood and North West
  Leicestershire, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton,
  Rutland and Harborough and South Leicestershire
  PCTs.
• The PCT provides the following services to its
  local population
• Providing community services ourselves
• Contracting with independent primary care
  contractors
• Buying specialist healthcare services

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Map of Area
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Who we serve

• We employ around 3,000 staff and have an annual
  spend of almost 700m
• We serve a population of 660,000 who live mainly
  in the geographical area represented by
  Leicestershire and Rutland County Councils
• In general, the population of Leicestershire and
  Rutland experience better than national average
  health, with only a few areas (parts of
  Loughborough and Greenhill ward in North West
  Leicestershire), which could be described as
  seriously disadvantaged
• Health need analysis shows significant
  differences across Leicestershire and Rutland
• 19.5 of the local population (125,900) are under
  16 years of age
• Older people (males over 65 and females over 60)
  make up 18.3 (117,900) of the population
• 62.2 (401,100) are of working age (16 to 64
  years).

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Why volunteer for the pilot?

• Weak Standard for Better Health performance
  06/07
• Benchmark performance for the new organisation
• Prepare for and to influence the final standards
• Financial incentive

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How we prepared

• Panic!
• Initial benchmarking undertaken against all
  criteria to identify weaknesses
• Action plan developed
• Assigned lead officers
• Quality review of existing documentation
• Regular committee reporting on progress
• Timetable policies to be approved in time for
  assessment

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Challenges Successes

• Challenges
• Timescale pressures
• Interpretation of criteria
• Sheer volume of documentation for development,
  review and approval
• Evidence template was temperamental

• Successes
• We Passed! (41/50)
• Common sense approach from the assessor
• Executive Director lead
• Team working
• Delivered alongside competing demands
• NHSLA template documents

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What have we gained from the experience

• Knowledge of the assessment
• Understanding of the terminology
• Preparedness for the level 2 assessment
• The need for strong project management
• Time flies!
• The need for networking and sharing best practice
• Not as bad as we thought we were!

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Contact Details

• Leicestershire County and Primary Care Trust
• Lakeside House
• 4 Smith WayGrove ParkEnderbyLeicester, LE19
  1SS
• Heather Darlow, Corporate Governance
• Manager 0116 295 7548
• Craig Sharples, Risk Manager 0116 295 7604