Section 1 Welcome – from Angela Monaghan, Chair and Mike Potts, Chief Executive Welcome to our annual report for 2011/12. This has been a momentous year for the NHS nationally, and no less for us here in Calderdale. Just as the year ended the Health and Social Care Act 2012 passed into statute, marking the culmination of a process which has already seen huge organisational change. Business as usual for local people We have worked hard to ensure that the NHS locally is in good shape to adapt to the requirements of the new Act and, despite the undoubted upheaval of the changes, we are delighted to report that it is still business as usual for local people. If you dip into some of the stories later in this report, you will see that we are continuing to extend access to GP services, we are still committed to helping local people lead healthier lives, and we are actively working to secure the long term future of clinical services both in hospital and in the community. Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield District – working together Perhaps the most significant change during the year has been our joining together with NHS Kirklees and NHS Wakefield District, as a cluster of primary care trusts. The cluster is led by one Board, with one Chair and one Chief Executive. Supporting the Board in Calderdale is a Chief Operating Officer, Julie Lawreniuk who is responsible for the day to day running of the PCT. However, while coming together under one board, the three PCTs have not merged and we each continue as a statutory body in our own right until abolition of the PCTs at the end of March 2013. We are not alone in making these arrangements: across the country, 152 PCTs have moved into 50 clusters. The benefits have been huge, enabling us to secure resilience during transition, helping us to make efficiency savings and, crucially, allowing us to provide robust support for the emerging clinical commissioning groups as they prepare to take over the commissioning reins in April 2013. Quality, improvement, productivity and prevention (QIPP) NHS Calderdale, like NHS organisations across the country, faces a huge challenge – the ‘QIPP’ challenge - to work more efficiently and to contribute to the £20bn savings which the NHS has to achieve by 2015. As you read on in this report, you will find out more about some of the ways in which we are making our contribution.
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