Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership has provided an update on the Collaborative of Acute Providers (CAP) through a blog by Wendy Scott, managing director.
CAP is one of several provider collaboratives in operation across the integrated care system, with others collaboratives focusing on mental health, voluntary sector, primary care and community provision. The initiative aims to allow trusts to work at scale to benefit their populations, combining resources and expertise.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust are the four acute trusts within CAP.
Wendy shared that the ongoing collaboration has yielded an agreed elective and diagnostic recovery plan which aims to optimise their joint capacity and support waitlist management. She added that through pooling resources and knowledge, the collaborative aims to “ensure that people have timely access to high quality care and are supported to achieve their best health.”
These are some of the ways they will do this:
- Retain ‘bold and ambitious’ standards of care for patients and work to deliver these consistently
- Engage with communities to tackle inequalities across patient outcomes, experience and access of services.
- Invest and develop both the existing and newer workforce, collaborating with partners to ensure Humber and North Yorkshire is a great place to work.
- Utilise NHS resources effectively and efficiently to facilitate better outcomes for patients, proving people with access to the right treatment and care at the right time.
Going forward, CAP will continue to develop a strategic approach to clinical services and a strategic response to clinical networks and associated cross-system working.
The collaborative aims to deliver elective recovery to meet or exceed national benchmarks; deliver urgent care standards across providers and systems; build capacity and capability; and establish appropriate corporate strategies to enhance integration.
