Healthcare in the West Midlands is now the responsibility of seven Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG): Birmingham CrossCity; Birmingham South Central; Sandwell and West Birmingham; Solihull; Dudley; Wolverhampton; and Walsall.
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History
From 1947 to 1974 NHS services in the West Midlands were managed by the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board. In 1974 the Boards were abolished and replaced by Regional Health Authorities. The West Midlands still came under the Birmingham RHA. Regions were reorganised in 1996 and the area came under the West Midlands Regional Health Authority. From 1974 there were 6 Area Health Authorities covering North, South, East, West and Central Birmingham, together with authorities covering Dudley, Sandwell, Coventry, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. There were seven District Authorities, one covering each borough. In 1992-4 Birmingham was reorganised into North and South districts. 13 Primary care trusts were established in the county in 2002: Coventry Teaching PCT, Eastern Birmingham PCT, North Birmingham PCT, Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT, Solihull Care Trust, South Birmingham PCT, Dudley Beacon & Castle PCT and Dudley South PCT, Oldbury & Smethwick PCT, Rowley Regis & Tipton PCT and Wednesbury & West Bromwich PCT, Walsall Teaching PCT and Wolverhampton City PCT. They were merged into 9 in 2006. They were managed by the Birmingham and The Black Country Strategic health authority (apart from Coventry, which was under West Midlands South). From 2006 they were all managed by NHS West Midlands.
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Sustainability and transformation plans
In March 2016 Mark Rogers, Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council was appointed the leader of the Birmingham and Solihull Sustainability and transformation plan footprint. Andy Williams, the Accountable Officer of Sandwell West Birmingham CCG, was appointed the leader of the Black Country STP, and Andy Hardy, the Chief Executive of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust the leader of the Coventry and Warwickshire STP.
The plans for Birmingham and Solihull involve the development of 4 or5 urgent care centres/integrated service hubs and moving GPs into A&E units. In Coventry & Warwickshire a new Acute Stroke Unit will be established at University Hospital Coventry and the partnership is expected to become an accountable care system during 2017.
Commissioning
The Clinical commissioning groups took on the responsibilities of the former PCTs on 1 April 2013. Birmingham CrossCity, South Central and Solihull CCGs are planning to merge in April 2018. The merged organisation will cover a population of 1.3 million and have a budget of £1.7 billion.
Urgent care
Out-of-hours services were provided by Birmingham & District General Practitioner Emergency Rooms in Birmingham, Solihull and Walsall. Nestor Primecare Services Limited provides these services in Dudley, Sandwell, Heart of Birmingham, South Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Integrated NHS 111 access and Out of Hours were set up in November 2017, designed to bring closer working relationships between the urgent care system, the GP out of hours services, social care, the ambulance service and the NHS 111 service. Worcestershire and Warwickshire Out of Hours services are to be delivered by Care UK, Out of Hours GP services for Birmingham South Central by Badger Group, Herefordshire and Sandwell & West Birmingham Out of Hours by Nestor Primecare, and Rugby Out of Hours by Vocare.
Primary care
In 2015, the medical journal, Pulse reported that doctors in some English areas, notably South Birmingham are paid to limit hospital referrals. The payments include limiting referrals for cancer patients. The scheme is controversial and some members of the British Medical Association fear it could affect patient care adversely. GMC guidelines forbid doctors to receive, "inducement, gift or hospitality" which influences or can be seen as influencing the way patients are treated or referred. There is concern the payments could affect doctor patient trust.
A multispecialty community provider is being developed by Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group. It will include all the GP practices in the borough, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, and Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Our Health Partnership plans to be the single largest provider of primary care services in the UK. It has been established from a consortium of four NHS trusts and 38 local GP practices which will manage a single, whole population budget for about 300,000 people. It will provide community-based physical health for adults and children, some outpatient services, primary medical services, mental health services, public health, learning disabilities services, urgent care centres and GP out-of-hours care. Adult social care services will be introduced at a later stage of the 15 year contract.
The Connected Care Partnership vanguard, based in Sandwell, is an alliance formed by Modality Partnership, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust]], Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group and the Intelligent Commissioning Federation, a network formed by 15 GP practices in Ladywell, Birmingham.
Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust runs eight GP practices out of the 44 in Wolverhampton, with a total registered list of 52,862 patients.
Hospital provision
Hospitals trusts in the region are:
- Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
- Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust
- Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust
- Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
An arrangement where University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust provided oncology services in Sandwell was terminated in October 2017 "due to the unsustainability of staffing at the Sandwell and City sites".
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust formed the Black Country Alliance in 2015, and Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust joined it in 2017. It was renamed the Black Country Provider Partnership. Merger of their pathology services at a hub in Wolverhampton is planned by June 2019, with expectations of £5 million a year savings.
Mental health
NHS mental health services are provided by Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. They have formed an accountable clinical networks called MERIT - The Mental Alliance for Excellence, Resilience, Innovation and Training, and set up a common bed management system for the 796 inpatient beds they run. They have also established an electronic shared health record. They hope to realise savings of £6 million by 2020-21.
The Forward Thinking Birmingham consortium has been selected to deliver a new combined mental health service for people aged 0-25 across the city of Birmingham from October 2015. The consortium is led by Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and includes Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, the Priory Group, Beacon UK, and The Children's Society. The 5-year contract has an annual value of £23.7m. It will result in the mental health trust losing £14.2m a year. An independent impact assessment recommended delayed implementation and "bridging funding" of at least £1.5m to enable the safe transition of some adult services. The joint commissioning board for the three Birmingham and Solihull clinical commissioning groups agreed in June 2017 to spend an additional £8.1 million over two years to ease pressure on adult mental health beds after an independent report produced by Mental Health Strategies had "unearthed unsafe clinical practice due to a shortfall in bedded capacity". The contract only provided 28 inpatient mental health beds for young adults but the service consistently had about 51 inpatients.
Community services
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust is the main NHS provider.
Stephen Dorrell will chair an independent board which will advise and oversee the partnership between health and social services in the Birmingham and Solihull Sustainability and transformation plan as it develops over the next five years.
All Together Better Dudley, a Multispecialty community provider, has set up teams including social care, district health and practice based pharmacists which include voluntary sector link workers. This has reduced GP visits among the targeted patients.
See also
- Category:Health in the West Midlands (county)
- Healthcare in the United Kingdom
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