There are several key areas of work to progress under the Better, Sooner, More Convenient initiative banner and Canterbury Clinical Network.
Workstreams are clinically-led and supported by key people from across the primary and secondary sectors. Their scope is to:
- Provide strong clinical leadership to provide guidance in an area of health and social services for a population as identified in the CCN Implementation Plan.
- Bring together data and ideas on the needs of a defined population.
- Propose transformational service improvement. Identify areas requiring redesign and innovation.
- May or may not lead to service level alliances.
- May oversee project work.
- Link with other workstreams; undertake joint work with other workstreams as appropriate.
- No specified funding accountability.
Service Level Alliance (SLA) scope is to:
- Design and plan the delivery of a service or group of services in a specific area of health and social services within a defined scope.
- Build on the guidance developed by the workstreams. Apply the delegated funding available to lead the required service/service change.
- Link with other service level allinace groups and workstreams
- Design evaluation criteria.
- Accountability to ensure tha tmonitoring and evaluation is occurring.
- Report regularly to TLB/CCN on service design, progress and activity, and evaluation.
- Feed into Distrct Annual Plan around deliverables, targets, etc.
- Membership fulfils a skill set appropriate to the service(s).
- Members may also be service providers (but not necessarily).
- Members are agreed by TLB and sign an Alliance Charter.
Priorities have been identified in these areas: