NHS Oxfordshire - Invitation to Innovate

The ‘Better Healthcare Programme for Banbury and the surrounding areas’ is seeking ideas for innovative service models to provide acute medical care for the population served by the Horton General Hospital.

Oxfordshire PCT, through the Better Healthcare Programme is seeking ideas which:

• Ensure the sustained provision of local acute medical services, particularly maternity, paediatrics, gynaecology and A&E.
• Provide a clear role for the Horton General Hospital which delivers the Independent Reconfiguration Panel’s recommendations.
• Fit with Oxfordshire PCT’s strategy for the area and address the health needs set out the Health Needs Assessment for the area.
• Take account of the issues facing rural settlements and market towns within the Horton’s catchment area.
• Create new ideas which perhaps challenge existing models of NHS

provision, and which may draw on alternate models from other health

care systems.

A successful proposal will indicate how all, or some of, these issues will be tackled. Interested parties are asked to submit an outline proposal by 30 April 2009 which should include the following basic level of detail:

• Title/name for idea proposed.
• Description of idea.
• Scale: will the idea deliver a complete range of acute healthcare services, or does it focus on a specific service or patient group?
• Timescale: for implementation.
• Indication of cost implications if available, for example, is the proposal ‘invest to save’?

Respondents who are shortlisted will then be asked to work with the ‘Better Healthcare Programme’ to develop these ideas over a three month period. The service models developed during this period will be subject to an evaluation process involving patients, public, clinical staff and other stakeholders.

This is an opportunity for a truly innovate model of care to be developed. The outcome of this ‘Invitation to Innovate’ will be showcased at a national conference focussing on the issues faced by small general hospitals planned for October 2009.

A supporting information pack will be made available to respondents and this pack will also be accessible through the PCT’s website: www.oxfordshirepct.nhs.uk/news/better-healthcare/invitation.aspx

You can send your proposal and contact details to:

Oxfordshire PCT

Freepost RRRK-BZBT-ASXU

5510 John Smith Drive

Oxford Business Park South

Oxford

OX4 2LH

Or by email: bhp@oxfordshirepct.nhs.uk

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