HSJ Awards Winner

NHS Halton Clinical Commissioning Group and Wellbeing Enterprises CIC has won the Primary Care Innovation Award at the 2015 HSJ Awards for our Community Wellbeing Practices.  The winners of the 2015 HSJ Awards were announced on 18 November at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.  The Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards, is the largest celebration of healthcare excellence in the UK, highlighting the most innovative and successful people and projects in the sector.

The awards were created in 1981 to recognise, on a national platform, the projects and initiatives that deliver healthcare excellence and innovation. By shining a spotlight on cutting-edge innovations and best practice, the awards give impetus to improving the quality of health care in the UK.

After review by esteemed judging panels, made up of senior and influential figures from the health sector, NHS Halton Clinical Commissioning Group and Wellbeing Enterprises CIC won in recognition of their outstanding work.  The judges commented that “This project was described as brave and courageous” and that “it was a wonderful depiction of harnessing the ‘sparkly eyed’ people in the community and was a passionate example of what the future could look like”.

This is a great achievement for us all, the entries to this year’s HSJ Awards grew by 20% with the 23 categories receiving an average 70 entries each.  There is not a similar healthcare awards the world over which is so fiercely contested.  Well done to everyone who has worked so hard to establish the Community Wellbeing Practice approach across the borough.

Simon Banks

Chief Officer

www.haltonccg.nhs.uk

Delivering the Five Year Forward View

It is just over a year since the NHS Five Year Forward View highlighted the stark realities, difficult choices and reform challenges we face in the health and care sector. The pace of reform has noticeably quickened and there are subtle but potentially seismic cultural shifts beginning to occur as new care models and organisational forms develop. More importantly there is increasing interest in working better together, in collaboration.

Collaboration recognises that individuals, communities and organisations need to work together to bring about meaningful change. Collaboration is not about everyone agreeing, it is about achieving the best possible outcome from a challenging situation, it is about the quality of the creative conversations and dialogue to get you there.

Our approach as a CCG, which is being taken into all our work, particularly in One Halton, has collaboration as one of 6Cs that guide us. The others are compassion, communication, common purpose, cooperation and coproduction. They are easy to say, they are sometimes difficult to put into action, but if we don't then we will not deliver the services that the local people we serve want and need.

There is often talk of winners and losers in any change situation. This is fair enough as not everyone can be a winner in scenarios that are often volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Nonetheless the magnitude and scale of the challenges we face in the health and care sector and the absence of a status quo option - there is not a no change choice as to do nothing means decline - make collaboration a necessity. Without collaboration everyone loses.

Simon Banks