Healthy Weston - joined up care

News - 20 February 2018

Published in October 2017, the Healthy Weston vision sets out how the North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) wants to organise and deliver current services as effectively and efficiently as possible.
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The CCG is asking for views on a wide range of services, looking at how services could best work together to provide better joined-up care for patients and how some services could be delivered differently in the future. Services include GP practices, community healthcare services, mental health, maternity services, the community and voluntary sector, social care as well as services provided at Weston General Hospital and services provided by each of the main hospitals in the area.

Delivering the Healthy Weston vision will help meet the current and future needs of local people, respond to the increasing and changing demand on services, and reduce unacceptable variations in health and people’s life chances across our area. This will also help ensure services are both clinically and financially sustainable by making sure they can deliver to national quality standards and are affordable within the available funding.

Patients will benefit by being better supported to stay well, and receiving better joined-up care, with more people treated in the community and closer to home.  The CCG wants to keep people well and independent, deliver day-to-day services locally, and when specialist hospital treatment is required, make sure it is of the highest quality and work to get our patients home as soon as they are well enough.

The CCG wants Weston General Hospital to remain at the heart of the community, providing sustainable hospital services it is best placed to provide. It also wants Weston to have a new community-focussed role providing a greater range of health and care services on the site of the hospital, enabling patients to be treated more effectively and efficiently in one place for common and immediate health needs, without needing to go to hospital or to travel to several different places for treatment.

Complete the survey online via bit.ly/healthyweston

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