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1.           Aims and Objectives

The strategic aims of the Long Term Conditions Programme Board are:

• To improve the experience of people who use our services
• Preventing people from dying prematurely
• Enhancing quality of life for people with long-term conditions
• Supporting people to recover from episodes of ill-health or following injury
• Enabling and supporting people in Milton Keynes to die in the place of their choice

We will achieve these aims by:

• Involving local people in the design, commissioning and delivery of services for people with long term conditions
• Ensuring all services commissioned are available to the people in Milton Keynes who need them, and there are no local variations in service provision.
• Developing integrated health and social care services
• Working with the voluntary and community sectors to provide inclusive local services
• Developing high quality primary and community services to support people in their local communities and reduce reliance on acute hospital care.
• Commissioning services that focus on reablement and rehabilitation and support people to fulfil their potential
• Delivering effective services that support people at the end of life
• Developing partnerships with a range of organisations to help deliver improved quality of life for people that use our services.

How the LTC Programme Board will operate

• The LTC Programme Board is a sub group of the Commissioning Delivery Group of the CCG.
• Work programme is a mixture of business as usual and the management of specific projects to deliver change.
• Projects, once implemented, will become business as usual.
• For each current open project, a highlight report is required by the LTC Programme Board, for discussion at each Programme Board. This will report by exception.
• The LTC Programme Board will discuss and approve policies, procedures, service change proposals and any relevant strategy, prior to presentation to CDG
• It is a decision making group

The current LTC Work Programme projects:

• Cardiology Services
• Delivering a new model of care for people with LTCs, including risk profiling, developing integrated health and social care teams, and support and information to help people care for themselves
• Commission a diabetes service to support the delivery of care in primary care settings
• Integrated Community Equipment Services – tendering for a new service with a larger provider to make efficiency savings
• Commissioning a hyper acute stroke service for rapid access to thrombolysis for those eligible patients.
• Cancer services

GP lead: Dr Nessan Carson

Programme Manager: Cath Broadhead

Contact: Catherine.Broadhead@miltonkeynes.nhs.uk