{"id":1862,"date":"2019-08-04T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T07:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2019-08-22T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T08:12:44","slug":"sahf-is-dead-but-now-we-have-the-case-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"SAHF is dead &#8211; But now we have &#8216;the Case for Change&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>The &#8216;Case for Change&#8217; is the latest re-organisation for the NHS in North West London, following the official abandonment of &#8216;Shaping a Healthier Future.&#8217;<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>ESON believes it represents bad news for patients, and we have produced this document to explain why.<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">You can also download the document <a href=\"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ESON-Comments-on-the-Case-for-Change.pdf\">here<\/a> in a print-friendly format.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><b>SUMMARY<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The \u2018Case for Change\u2019 document proposes far ranging organisational plans, the content of which is quite undeveloped or even non-existent.\u00a0 There is a clear intention, however, to introduce rigid budgets which would inevitably lead to patients being denied treatment.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A confidential NHS document recently passed to Ealing Save Our NHS reveals that North West London NHS had a cumulative deficit (i.e. underfunding) of \u00a3324 million by 2018\/19.\u00a0 A central response to this in the document is apparently to \u201cstem growth of activity\u201d. In other words, to cut existing health services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>We believe this is the background to the \u201cCase for Change\u201d and the main reason we find it to be unsupportable.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>AN INBUILT LACK OF CLARITY<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forward to the Case for Change document starts thus:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis Case for Change document is written in response to the NHS long term plan\u2026.\u00a0 The long term plan raises other issues: how a NW London integrated care system would operate; how integrated care partnerships (ICPs) would develop at a more local level and the development of primary care networks.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately in our view, the document doesn\u2019t live up to this challenge as it fails to explain just how the Integrated Care System (ICS) would work, nor how the proposed Eight ICPs would work. It is also vague about the development of Primary Care Networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The introduction continues: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis document focusses on the first of those issues- a proposed change that would see NW London moving from eight CCGs to a single CCG.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So even at the start it\u2019s unclear whether we are talking about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">integrated care partnerships <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or about CCGs.\u00a0 We believe this ambiguity reflects the fact that decisions have yet to be made.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Case for Change also says: \u201cWe want to eliminate the administrative burden that comes from running eight statutory organisations\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> statutory organisations, so how can they be replaced? \u00a0 Even merging them into a single CCG is legally dubious. The proposed solution seems to be keeping a CCG or CCGs and running a whole new structure of ICS and ICPs alongside, which obviously <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">increases<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the administrative burden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This lack of clarity is repeated throughout the whole document \u2013 a document, which claims to lay the framework for the NHS in a fifth of London with a budget of around \u00a35 billion pounds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ealing Save Our NHS shares the view already expressed by other organisations that the document cannot be supported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>THE LEGACY OF SHAPING A HEALTHIER FUTURE AND ITS SUSTAINABILITY AND TRANSFORMATION PLAN (STP)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If ever there was an example of officials ignoring the nakedness of the Emperor, it was the doomed Shaping a Healthier Future Plan for North West London, which, along with the STP, is to be replaced by a \u2018Case for Change\u2019.\u00a0 Surely before NHS bosses embark on yet another re-organisation, they must make some public assessment of what\u2019s gone wrong so far. They can\u2019t pretend it didn\u2019t happen!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every re-organisation necessarily impedes front line staff from settling down to the job. It moves experienced people around, demoralises many and frequently empowers the managers at the expense of clinical staff.\u00a0 If there is no balance sheet of the disastrous SaHF, with its huge waste of money and time, how can we have any confidence in new proposals?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the same people, who wasted possibly \u00a3200 million worth of NHS money in North West London on SaHF, have now put their name to the Case for Change!\u00a0 Are we honestly supposed to pretend the last seven years of attempts to apply SaHF never happened? Are we still to pretend the Emperor was clothed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many mothers in Ealing are distraught at the loss of Maternity and Paediatric services in Ealing Hospital \u2013 yet these awful closures of important services are claimed as somehow being \u201csuccesses\u201d for SaHF.\u00a0 Meanwhile, even after the official demise of SaHF, Ealing Hospital has continued to have services removed and there is clearly no strategic view of its future. It seems as though North West London senior managers are content to allow our local hospital to drift while they address their own organisational structures.\u00a0 Ealing Save Our NHS firmly believes this would not be allowed to happen to a hospital based, not in Southall, but in an affluent part of London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until the focus is on the needs of the communities, especially the neediest communities, local people are unlikely to support yet another re-organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We do of course welcome moves to cut spending on administration:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMaintaining eight separate statutory bodies is difficult to justify when there is so much pressure on health spending, and each statutory body costs an average of about \u00a3680k to run.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What the \u2018Case for Change\u2019\u00a0 annual \u00a3680k figure for running each CCGs refers to is a\u00a0 mystery because data from the latest NHS NWL Annual Reports of the 8 CCGS reveals total \u2018workforce\/employee benefits\u2019 of over \u00a380 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is of course no mention of the millions of NHS money given to outside management consultants for the failed \u2018Shaping a Healthier Future\u2019 plans.\u00a0 This amounted to \u00a376 million between 2009 and 2017, at which point SaHF stopped publishing the figures. Is this just to be shrugged off?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>THE CASE FOR CHANGE PROPOSALS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe want to \u2026 move towards greater integration with the eight local authorities in NW London. We believe doing so will enable us all to achieve more for our residents in improving health and care services within the budgets we have.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This statement and others, though typically vague on detail, sets alarm bells ringing for more than one reason.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are huge differences between local authorities and NHS services, in that local authorities are elected and accountable to the public. If decisions are taken jointly in committees with unelected NHS staff appointed centrally, this accountability would effectively be lost.\u00a0 There is no commitment in the \u2018Case for Change\u2019 that the ICP meetings of local authorities and NHS managers would even be held in public, like the CCGs, let alone any suggestion of accountability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other fundamental difference between the NHS and Local authority provided social care is that NHS services are free.\u00a0 It has often been pointed out that a person with dementia is faced with losing all their property including their house as they have to pay for social care, whereas the identical person with cancer would receive free treatment from the NHS.\u00a0 There are no assurances that combining budgets would not take us towards more care being charged for.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even more concerning is the mention of services provided <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018within the budgets we have\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 This is just one of several references to fixed capitated budgets not based on patient need.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For some time, it has been suggested that the underfunding of the NHS has been partly motivated by a philosophy of some in Government that more NHS services should be paid for as part of a deliberate \u2018shrinking of the state\u2019.\u00a0 The proposition of the Long Term Plan to merge NHS and social care budgets does nothing to dispel that fear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposed Integrated Care Partnerships appear to be motivated by centralised budget cuts.\u00a0 The proposed \u2018Partnership\u2019 would seem to be one of junior partners being overseen, at least in part,\u00a0 by a North West London strategic body (the ICS), in turn overseen by NHS London, NHS England and the Health Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exactly how will it work?\u00a0 The document doesn\u2019t say, presumably because they don\u2019t know.\u00a0 The only clarity is that budgets would be restricted and consequently cuts enforced.\u00a0 One code for this is \u201cmove away from payment by results\u201d. Apart from introduction of that key centralised financial straitjacket, it seems most other things are still vague for the grass roots level, presumably because:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe operating model to determine functions which continue at local level will be developed over the summer as part of the engagement process.\u00a0 We need to develop further the framework for ICP development and encourage those who are furthest ahead to make progress.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the inability to develop plans in key areas, the \u2018Case for Change\u2019 aks us to endorse drastic new organisational plans.\u00a0 In summary there would be an Integrated Care System (ICS) Board, a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Governing Body, an STP Partnership Board, 8 Place (Borough) Teams\u2019,\u00a0 \u2018Local Committees\u2019\u2019, 8 Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs) and 47 Primary Care Networks (PCNs) management teams. All centrally controlled with fixed budgets for a huge area with massive variations of problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will there be separate plans and separate budgets or a single plan and separate budgets or a single plan and a single budget? Answer \u2013 not decided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s no wonder that elected Councillors for local Boroughs have a wide range of concerns which included inadequate time to assimilate the changes for a 1 April 2020 start date, financial risks, budget organisation, how it will actually work in practice, cuts to services, no business case and staffing uncertainties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So little has been worked out or decided &#8211; this is a senior NHS management demanding a free hand to make sweeping changes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>CENTRALLY RESTRICTED BUDGETS WOULD REPLACE PATIENT NEED<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA move to a single CCG will also support the move away from the payment by results system towards capitated outcome-based budgeting, support consistency and equity in our methods for engagement, and simplify system wide financial planning.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt the end of financial year 2018\/19 the eight CCGs in NW London had collectively overspent their budgets by \u00a356.7m \u2013 we aim to manage our spending within our budgets.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOver 30% of patients in acute hospitals do not need to be in an acute setting and should be cared for in more appropriate places\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Put these three extracts from the \u2018Case for Change\u2019 together and a frightening picture emerges.\u00a0 Already the LNWUH Trust was retrospectively refused funding for A&amp;E patients, simply because numbers had exceeded an anticipated target.\u00a0 Having been denied funding in an unprecedented manner, Trusts are told they are \u2018in deficit\u2019 and should not \u2018be rewarded for the so-called overperformance of vital services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is quite patently not clinically driven policy but cuts driven policy.\u00a0 The new system would mean that patients would inevitably be denied treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018NHS NWL has stated publicly that as these are just organisational changes and will not impact care services, no formal public consultation will be needed. However, as fixed priced budgets seem to be a central part of the reform commissioning package this would certainly impact on patient services by reducing, or at worst eliminating, some care services. Given this, surely the public must be formally and transparently consulted about these major changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>ACCOUNTABILITY REPLACED BY \u2018ENGAGEMENT\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have already made reference to the possible undermining of the current accountability of local authorities through merging social care into ICPs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The refusal to examine the SaHF collapse highlights a cavalier attitude to accountability.\u00a0 If eye-watering sums of money can be wasted, thousands of staff demoralised and services cut in a failed project, how can the very same people expect support for a new project?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Case for Change document has no proposals for public accountability.\u00a0 Accountability is one thing \u2013 engagement another. It\u2019s well known that for all its strengths, the NHS has always suffered from a democratic deficit relative to many other public services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently the 8 CCGs do at least meet in public and are borough based and subject to scrutiny by local authorities.\u00a0 But a year ago the CCGs were collectively all given a new boss and expected to integrate their policies. The fig leaf of them being independent and clinically led was thus removed at a stroke!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would the proposed ICPs (however they are constituted) meet in public? We are not told.\u00a0 The single CCG would do so, but a single CCG covering the whole of North West London would be remote from all local communities and of interest only to a dedicated minority and then only if they had the time and ability to travel across London.\u00a0 Furthermore, this single CCG would be subject to the decisions of the ICS, made presumably behind closed doors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a nod to the tax-paying public and patients, the \u2018Case for Change\u2019 proposes establishment of a huge focus group called a \u201ccitizens\u2019 panel\u201d to be managed no doubt by the public relations\/engagement team.\u00a0 Of course focus groups have their place, but they are a tool for senior management and should not be confused with public accountability. It\u2019s hard to imagine that the poorest from our communities would have a strong voice in this focus group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Likewise Healthwatch.\u00a0 The Case for Change states that \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Healthwatch has always been represented in our entire governance structure and will continue to be so. Their active participation has enabled effective engagement across NW London, regular patient involvement in project development and implementation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the seven years of\u00a0 huge public opposition to the Shaping a Healthier Future our local Healthwatch, the \u2018official\u2019 vehicle for public participation, barely even mentioned SaHF, let alone questioned this disastrous project in any way.\u00a0 Instead it focussed mainly on patient surveys requested by the CCG.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in our view although Healthwatch no doubt has a useful purpose, it must be recognised as a wing of the health authorities and cannot be seen as representing the broader views of the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>IN CONCLUSION<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team from Ealing Save Our NHS recently had the opportunity of a short meeting with the Accountable Officer and the opportunity to share our concerns.\u00a0 Helpful as this was in some respects, we were of the view that the \u2018Case for Change\u2019 was still extremely undeveloped. It became clear that proposals are deliberately kept fluid in many respects.\u00a0 For example there is no clarity on the functioning of the CCG in relation to boroughs, let alone how the ICPs would work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore some hitherto existing categories such as what constituted an NHS District General Hospital are to be disregarded in favour of more fluidity.\u00a0 This reads like a free hand for the centre and a loss of clinical decision making in favour of centrally ordered rigid budgets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent update provided for the North West London local authorities Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (JHOSC) failed to substantially address any of this detail, apart from lists of commissioning and management areas of responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>It\u2019s therefore the strong view of Ealing Save Our NHS that to push all this through in the next few months as proposed would in our view be irresponsible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>NHS NWL has as yet failed to produce even a draft NHS NWL Long Term Plan. Clearly it would be putting the cart before the horse to introduce underdeveloped organisational changes before having an approved regional 5 year Long Term Plan to service the care needs of 2.2 million residents, let alone rushing it through uncompleted.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Finally, it\u2019s our belief that the rigid budget system underlying the Case for Change would inevitably lead to a loss of services to patients.\u00a0 Those with money might be able to purchase these lost services, but others certainly could not, further undermining the principle of Health Services for all.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4 August 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Case for Change&#8217; is the latest re-organisation for the NHS in North West London, following the official abandonment of &#8216;Shaping a Healthier Future.&#8217; \u00a0 ESON believes it represents bad news for patients, and we have produced this document to explain why. 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&#8216;Case for Change&#8217; is the latest re-organisation for the NHS in North West London, following the official abandonment of &#8216;Shaping a Healthier Future.&#8217; \u00a0 ESON believes it represents bad news for patients, and we have produced this document to explain why. 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