Core strategies
The Board of NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent is pleased to present the Strategic Commissioning Plan for 2010 to 2015. This is our second strategic commissioning plan; it builds on the success of the first plan and our analysis of the challenges we faced in its implementation, as well as incorporating the learning we gained through the first year of World Class Commissioning assurance.
The Commissioning Development and Transition programme is the processes and mechanism by which the Kent and Medway Cluster will deliver the system reforms outlined in the white paper ‘Equity and Excellence’.
Additional strategies
This document pack has been produced to provide background details about this change of policy, and requests for further information.
The commissioning strategy for community services defines a clear direction for how community services will be transformed across NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent to meet the needs of the local population over the next five years.
Briefing Paper for the Commissioning Strategy Committee for the Complementary Therapies Review (CTR) - 24 November 2010.
NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent's End of Life Care Strategy promotes high quality care for all adults at the end of life.
This strategy seeks to ensure that the PCTs and local partners across Kent and Medway have an up to date strategy with a set of actions likely to impact positively on the suicide rate across the county.
One in four of us will have a mental health problem at some point in our lives. Live It Well is the strategy for improving the mental health and wellbeing of people in Kent and Medway.
The aim of the Referral and Treatment Criteria, which have been developed by GPs with hospital consultants and other health professionals in Kent and Medway, is to ensure that patients consistently get the right treatment at the right time.
They are based on best practice and NICE guidance to enable the NHS to minimise the risks of planned treatment for patients and maximise its benefits, so that people get the best possible care.
This strategy aims to give a framework for mental health promotion for NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent in order to improve and sustain mental health and wellbeing across all age groups and for those living with mental health issues.
The Core Strategy consultation options document sets out a range of options for proposals to deliver the requirements of the South East Plan by 2026. The HIA focused on five of those options, identified as the most sustainable in the Sustainability Appraisal.
