Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, and North Durham

Draft Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP)

Written Responses from individuals and organisations

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All organisations/individuals were contacted to confirm if they would like their submissions shared and given the following options

1. You are happy to have your full submission including your respondent details included and published

Or

2. You are happy for your submission to be published – but would prefer any details that identify you or your organisation to be redacted

Or

3. You would prefer not to have your submission published – but we can  list you in the appendix as being a respondent

If no response received options 3 was automatically chosen.

No. Name Response Option 1/2/3

Page Number

1 Acorn 1 3-42 Alyson Learmouth 1 4-83 Alzheimer’s Society 3 84 BMA 3 85 Carole Reeves 1 86 Carole Reeves 1 97 South Tyneside Council 1 9-118 Dave Bramley – Great North Air Ambulance 1 11-129 David Herbert No response

– Option 312

10 David Jenkins 1 1211 Elders Council of Newcastle 1 12-1412 Acorn 1 1413 Emma-Lewell-Buck No response

– Option 314

14 Personal details redacted 2 14-1715 Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust 1 18-2216 Heather Glenn No response

– option 322

17 Heather Graham No response – option 3

22

18 Iain Cameron 1 22

19 Ian Armstrong No response – option 3

22

20 Julie Armstrong 1 22

21 Durham Carers 1

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22 Personal details redacted 2

23 Janet Fraser No response – option 3

24 Jeanie Molyneux No response - option 3

25 Jeanne McDonald No response – option 3

26 Joan Hewitt No response – option 3

27 John Evans No response – option 3

28 Personal Details redacted 2

29 Cllr John McCabe 1

30 Sunderland Health and Wellbeing Board 1

31 Lesley Hanson 1

32 Carol Reeves – emailed from Healthwatch – County Durham

1

33 Mark Husmann No response – option 3

34 Not published or named by request of the participant

35 Royal College of Physicians No response – option 3

36 Save South Tyneside Hospital 1

37 Newcastle CVS 1

38 Steve Wood No response – option 3

39 Steven Ford 1

40 Sunderland ATB Provider Board 1

41 Sue Ward 1

42 Not published or named by request of the participant

43 Tyne Health 1

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44 Women’s Commissioning Support Unit NE 1

45 Personal Details redacted 2

46 RNIB No response – option 3

47 Clinical Council for Eye Health Commissioning (CCEHC)

1

48 Sunderland CCG 3

49 Unison 1

50 Gateshead & South Tyneside Local Medical Committee and Newcastle and North Tyneside Local Medical Committee – joint feedback

1

51 Sunderland Local Medical Committee 1

52 Not published or named by request of the participant

53 Unite the Union 1

54 Wes J Scaife No response – option 3

55 E Flett 1

56 Working Links 1

57 Healthwatch Newcastle 1

58 Constituents of Newcastle upon Tyne Central

No response – option 3

59 Nicholas Murrell-Dowson No response – option 3

60 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

1

61 Gateshead Council 1

62 Durham County Council 1

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1 AcornSTP VISION

In general support for the intentions which do aim at improvements to health, wellbeing, and healthcare

More communication is needed, especially with patients (and their representative groups), and with the workforce

Ensure the maintenance of quality of care, and the individual relationships in local GP practices

AMBITION FOR SERVICES IN 2021

Health inequalities are also driven by national factors, such as poverty and relative deprivation, and will therefore impact on the local ambition

Within the mental health forward view, lower level mental health issues need to be incorporated at GP practice level

The capacity of the workforce to achieve the proposed outcomes must recognise the length of time required to train all medical professionals, the retirement rate of GP's, and the employment conditions of staff vis-a-vis agency workers

The commitment to New Care Models of “outside hospital” services should involve patients in their development and monitoring

New services should not destabilise existing outstanding GP practices and hospital trusts

THE GAPS IN HEALTH AND WELLBEING, CARE QUALITY AND FUNDING

Prevention and education for health is the key to all three gaps. Education can include eg Danish children being taught Resuscitation

Better health also depends on national government responsibilities, especially taking evidence based action on alcohol (?pricing), sugar and fat reduction by the food industry, and a level of resources for social care able to support the STP

There is clearly some scope for co-ordination/simplification in IT systems and other functions, and sharing best practice, to make savings, which could be realised in a non-competitive regulatory future

SCALE OF THE CHALLENGE

The challenge should be to national government on the scale of the resources needed. {The national funding gap over 5 years is met by a 1p increase in the rates of Income Tax}

“Invest to Save”

Move to ensure existing accountability legislation matches joined up thinking

ENGAGING PEOPLE

Continuing dialogue with patients and with staff, some still seem unaware of this process

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