Improving health outcomes

These are the similarities and differences for Improving health, as discussed at the Leading Clinical Commissioning event held by NHS Birmingham East and North on 20 and 21 July 2010.

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Similarities

• Loss of knowledge
• Fragmentation
• Opportunity for integrated working
• Threat to increasing inequalities
• Knowledge/evident
• GPs on forefront/frontline
• More patient orientation
• - Ideas similar thinking difference

Differences

• Some think
• - Better awareness of health need
• - Less awareness of health need
• How easy people think it is
• - Problems
• - Threats
• - Opportunities
• View of patient engagement
• - Opportunities
• - Threats
• Some see postcode lottery as problem – others don’t see it at all
• Comms/IT as threat/help

See also: LCC similarities and differences write-up (Word doc)