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Why act? If population healthcare is the solution – what is the problem?

Sir Muir GrayJoint National Director, Right Care

August 2013

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Right Care for Populations

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Great innovations of the first and second healthcare revolutions

• MRI and CT scanning• Statins • Antibiotics• Coronary artery bypass

graft surgery & stents• Hip and knee replacement• Chemotherapy• Radiotherapy• Randomised controlled

trials• Systematic reviews

The First The Second

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But…

..all health services, world wide, still face 5 major problems

• failure to prevent preventable disease

• inequity• patient harm, even when quality is

high• waste of resources• unwarranted variation in:

- activity- quality, safety- outcome & cost = value

..and there is an iceberg ahead.

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Population Healthcare…5 questions

1. Is the service for people with seizures & epilepsy in Manchester better than the service in Liverpool?

2. Who is responsible for the headache service for people in Southampton?

3. How many liver disease service s are there in England and how many should there be?

4. Which service for frail elderly people in the London provides the best value?

5. Which service for children with mental health problems improved most in the last year ?

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The Healthcare Archipelago

General Practice

Mental Health

Community Services

Hospital Services

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The Commissioning Archipelago

GPs / Pharmacists / Optometrists

152 Local Authorities

Public Health 211 CCGs

Specialist Commissioning

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Defining Population Healthcare

“The aim of Population healthcare is to maximise value for those populations and the individuals within them Population healthcare focuses primarily on populations defined by a common need which may be a symptom such as breathlessness, a condition such as arthritis or a common characteristic such as frailty in old age, not on institutions, or specialties or

technologies”

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Paradigm shift

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A new language

A SYSTEM is a set of activities with a common set of objectives and an annual report. Systems can focus on symptoms, conditions or subgroups of the population(also known as a service)

A NETWORK is a set of individuals and organisations that deliver the system’s objectives(a team is a set of individuals or departments within one organisation)

A PATHWAY is the route patients usually follow through the network

A PROGRAMME is a set of systems with ha common knowledge base and a common budget

Primary Secondary Acute Community OutpatientX X X X X

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Work like an ant colony; Neither markets nor bureaucracies can solve the challenges of complexity

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