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Clinical Engagement

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National Institute for Clinical Excellence

This award was for an individual, team or organisation that best demonstrated an innovative programme involving both finance and clinicians with the aim of improving or has demonstrably improved public health or healthcare service delivery. 

Further detail on this Award can be found in HFMA’s 2008 Awards brochure.

Winner: South Manchester Practice-Based Commissioning Group and NHS Manchester

A project that brought together clinicians, finance and general managers to reduce unnecessary activity has won the 2008 Clinical Engagement Award for NHS Manchester and South Manchester Practice-Based Commissioning (PBC) Group.

The contract-driven reforms, which also generated a cycle of improved pathway efficiency and savings to be reinvested in other services, was launched in 2007/08. The practice-based commissioners in the south of the city got together with Manchester Primary Care Trust and University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust.

They introduced 10 performance requirements, which were designed by the group’s clinicians and PCT finance, contract and commissioning managers, and enhanced by the trust’s clinicians, finance and operations managers. The commissioners wished to reform the trust’s systems in a number of areas using the new contracts regime. Change was incentivised by ceasing to fund activity and rewarding reduction in activity in the areas that had been identified.

The winners said their project broke new ground because it brought together clinicians, finance staff and other managers from across primary and secondary care to improve patient care and reform clinical pathways. They added the approach is readily transferable to other parts of the NHS – indeed, it has been rolled-out across Greater Manchester in 2008/09.

Further detail on the winning entry is available in the HFMA 2008 Awards Supplement.

What the judges said:

"Judges favoured the Manchester entry as they felt it created more direct patient benefits, it generated the most savings and both primary and secondary care clinicians had been engaged in the process"

Further detail on the entry requirements, judging criteria and judges for this particular award can be found in the HFMA 2008 Awards Brochure.