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CHANGING FOR THE BETTER/SOUTH WALES PROGRAMME

 
 
       
   

May 2013: A consultation about the future of consultant-led maternity and neonatal care, inpatient children’s services and emergency medicine (A&E) for people in South Wales and South Powys.

 

On Wednesday 22nd May, the five health boards providing care for people in South Wales and South Powys agreed to launch a formal public consultation about the future of four hospital services.

 

Abertawe Bro Morgannwg, Aneurin Bevan, Cardiff and Vale, Cwm Taf and Powys health boards agreed to an eight-week consultation about the future of consultant-led maternity and neonatal care, inpatient children’s services and emergency medicine (A&E). The consultation will run from Thursday May 23 and end on Friday July 19.

 

The consultation document, the support technical documents, the draft equality impact assessment and full details of all the public meetings to support the public consultation are available on the South Wales Programme website: www.wales.nhs.uk/swp and www.wales.nhs.uk/swp/hafan (Welsh).

  
Update: 25th April 2013 - South Wales Programme Newsletter
 
Update: 28th January 2013:

South Wales Programme: Matching the Best in the World

The five health boards in South Wales—Abertawe Bro Morgannwg, Aneurin Bevan, Cardiff and Vale, Cwm Taf and Powys—have been talking to NHS staff, the public and stakeholders about a series of ideas put forward by our clinicians about the future of a range of specialist hospital services: consultant-led inpatient paediatrics, neonatal care, obstetrics and A&E care.

 
These ideas have been put forward in response to the challenges facing these services, including ensuring we have the highly-skilled and trained clinicians we need to provide care to the sickest and most seriously-injured patients at all times. This will ensure that the small number of patients who need this specialist care are able to receive it, wherever they live, when they need it.
 
The ideas put forward by our clinicians include concentrating this expertise on fewer hospital sites — four or five—across South Wales.  The 12-week engagement to debate these ideas finished on December 19.
 
The South Wales Programme board is currently working on the next stage of the plan – which includes analysing the responses to the engagement process in detail – in preparation for formal public consultation in spring 2013. 
 
The South Wales Programme team, which includes the Welsh Ambulance Service, is also working with clinicians to further develop the clinical service models for obstetrics, paediatrics, A&E and neonatal care.  Clinical reference groups have been set up to undertake this detailed service planning work collaboratively across the five health boards.
 
The latest documents to be published on this website (noon, January 28, 2013) are:
 
·        More information on the following document  South Wales Programme engagement methods (updated 21/02/2013)
·        More information on the following document  South Wales Programme engagement themes summary (updated 21/02/2013)
·        More information on the following document  South Wales Programme engagement written responses (updated 21/02/2013
·        More information on the following document  A summary of responses to the ORS questionnaire (updated 22/02/2013)

 

 

Background: In May 2102  we outlined the challenges facing the NHS and why we need to change the way we deliver care. After months of working with over 340 doctors and clinical staff; representatives from patient groups; the voluntary sector; local authorities and others taking part in our Changing for the Better programme, we now have some ideas of what those changes could be.

From 26th September 2012 to 19th December, 2012, we undertook a comprehensive engagement to help do this. Alongside Changing for the Better there is another project, the South Wales Programme. While these are different projects, some services have been considered by both. Therefore the ideas coming from the South Wales Programme will have implications for some of our local services.

Links to documents for both programmes are below.

 

 

Our Vision for Your Future Healthcare

We want a local NHS which offers the best quality care possible within the resources we have. Our ambition is to provide NHS services in Swansea, Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot that are comparable with the best anywhere. We want modern, safe and reliable services which meet 21st Century healthcare demands - including caring for growing numbers of frail, older, people; more patients with chronic diseases and tackling unhealthy lifestyles.

Want to find out more by watching our videos? Or read some earlier information about why services need to change?
 

Message from Hamish Laing, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and ABMU Director of Clinical Strategy

 
Health Boards across South Wales, included ABMU, have started a public dialogue about ideas to make NHS services safer, more reliable and better able to provide high quality care. No decisions have been made yet.
 
Why are we doing this now? Our NHS is facing huge challenges, and if we ignore them services could collapse. Instead, we want to think plans through and provide NHS services which are comparable to the best anywhere. That’s why 100s of our doctors and nurses have been looking at ways to do this.
 
You may know what happened at Neath Port Talbot Hospital recently, when acute medical admissions stopped. Behind this was a chronic shortage of doctors; a problem faced across the UK. We must find ways to stop what happened at Neath Port Talbot happening to other services; and for that we need to plan change.
 
Doctor shortages are not the only problem. The NHS is based on a 50-year-old blueprint not designed for today’s healthcare demands. We have a soaring number of frail and elderly patients who need a lot of care. There are ever more people with long-term illnesses. The NHS has financial pressures. Future demands on the NHS are stacking up with too many people overweight, smoking and drinking too much.
 
So we must make changes. We want to provide more community care and support healthier lifestyles. We need to make better use of our staff, especially doctors. Most NHS care would still be delivered locally, but sometimes, you might need to travel a bit further. The trade-off is you will see expert teams offering a safe and reliable service.
 
There is so much more to tell you - so please read our engagement document (link below) and watch the videos to find out more.
 
 
Changing for the Better engagement documents: 
 

Full Changing for the Better document ('Plain English' document with all the key information)

 
Changing for the Better - Easy Read Document - (published on website 07/05/2013)  
 
 
 
 
Subtitled version of the animated film
 
Welsh version of the animated film 
 
British Sign Language version of the animated film 
 
 
South Wales Programme documents:
 
 
SWP - links to supporting technical documents. Because of their large sizes, they are in divided into four files:
 
Part one   9Mb
Part two   9Mb
Part four   9Mb 
 
 

 Earlier Changing for the Better documents - explaining why your NHS needs to change

 

Changing for the Better videos and audio files

 
 
 
All other videos are approximately 1-2 minutes long.
 
 

Chapter 2: Colin Ferguson, Royal College of Surgeons

Chapter 3: Unscheduled Care

Chapter 4: Maternity and Newborns

Chapter 5 : Children and Young People

Chapter 6: Frail, Older People

Chapter 7: Long Term Conditions  

Chapter 8: Staying Healthy  

Chapter 9: Planned Care

Chapter 10: Patient Triza Jones

Chapter 11: Patient David Fellowes 

Chapter 12: Patient Doreen Edmunds  

Audio file - summary leaflet:Why your local NHS needs to change

Audio file Welsh - summary leaflet: Why your local NHS nees to change

Audio file - full document: Why your local NHS needs to change

Audio file Welsh - full document: Why your local NHS needs to change

Prof Marcus Longley presents his report on why the NHS in Wales needs to change (5-6 mins)

 What's wrong with the NHS in Wales? 4 FAQs (including the doctor shortage and financial issues)

 Why change is needed in the NHS in South Wales Short animated ABMU film about Changing for the Better
 

 Get involved - YouTellUs 

 

We want you to let us know what you think of our ideas, and your experience of your local NHS. YouTellUs is a web forum established by Swansea University to help you share your views with us.

You will find a link to the questionnaires above, and also have an opportunity to register with YouTellUs. If you register, we can let you know about the outcomes of the questionnaires directly, and also tell you about future surveys and events. We want you to get involved so please join YouTellUs!

Please visit: www.YouTellUs.org

Or you can write to us to give us your views:

Changing for the Better Team, ABM University Health Board, 1, Talbot Gateway, Baglan, Port Talbot, SA12 7BR

Or email: ABM.C4B@wales.nhs.uk

Or telephone: 01792 704019
 
 
 

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Last updated: 23 May 2013