Affiliations

There are many organisations whose work is linked to the Practice and the Patients Group.  The Patients Group seeks to maintain contact with several of these so that it can represent the viewpoint of patients to the Practice and other parties. 

Relevant ones include:

NAPP (National Association of Patient Participation)

See the NAPP website for information.  Members of the Patients Group have full access to this site if they wish – details from the Chairman
(but please do not alter the password!)

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The Integrated Care Service (ICS) and Integrated Care Board South (ICB(S))

This is part of NHS England which was introduced on 1st July 2022 to integrate the provision of Health and Social Care in the county.  For managerial purposes, the county is divided into two parts (imaginatively known as North and South) for management purposes.  South is Cambridge City, South Cambridgeshire District and East Cambridgeshire District with about 450,000 population while North is the rest of Cambridgeshire plus Peterborough covering about 570,000 people.    
 

ICB(S), is based on the Biomedical campus.  It contains and oversees about 35 General Practices and all the hospitals on the campus.  The latter are: Papworth and  Cambridge University Hospital Trust (CUHT includes: Addenbrooke’s, Rosie, the new cancer hospital under construction and will include the new children’s hospital, when construction begins).  Apart from healthcare, ICBs also includes many social elements, some of which are delivered via councils, care homes and also from new staff employed in PCNs (qv).

 

Primary Care Networks (PCNs)

These are groupings of several practices which remain independent but come together to provide additional services (some of them social).  Our PCN includes six Practices, these are: Cherry Hinton, Cornford House, Mill Road, Petersfield, Queen Edith and Woodlands with a total of nine surgeries and approaching 50,000 patients. Some services are delivered by staff employed by the PCN itself and each of those people are “housed” in a single practice but usually deliver their efforts to patients in two or more practices.

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Cambridge Area Patients Representative Group (CAPRG)

This group is being formed to replace the previous CAPG and contains representatives (often Chairs) of many of the PPGs in and around the City and out into the East and South Districts.  Two of the Group are also Governors of CUHT which gives the Group access to a wider knowledge base than other Groups (one of those people is Howard Sherriff who will be remembered by many of our members).  CAPRG is independent of ICB(s) but will carry weight throughout the region.  AW is a member representing our Patients Group.

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Others

We are forging relationships with other organisations in the local community, the City, the County and nationally to explore collaborative projects which may benefit patients and their carers.  One example is a national body (PPG Champions Group) with around 70 members and AW is one of them.  Its role is to develop and propagate good practice on a national basis.  It is staffed by and supported by people from a national NHS office.