Mental Health Clinical Lead
Hardwick Clinical Commissioning Group
Babington Hospital; Belper; Derbyshire
Hardwick CCG is a wonderful small CCG covering approximately 100,000 patients in North-East Derbyshire. However they are the lead organisation for Managing the contract for mental health and learning disabilities for all 4 CCGs that cover the whole population of Derbyshire i.e. 1 million. It is therefore my privilege to have recently been appointed as the Mental Health Clinical Lead.My role is to support the mental health commissioning team and to champion the better provision of mental… Show more Hardwick CCG is a wonderful small CCG covering approximately 100,000 patients in North-East Derbyshire. However they are the lead organisation for Managing the contract for mental health and learning disabilities for all 4 CCGs that cover the whole population of Derbyshire i.e. 1 million. It is therefore my privilege to have recently been appointed as the Mental Health Clinical Lead.My role is to support the mental health commissioning team and to champion the better provision of mental health services across the county by working closely with the excellent mental health clinical leads of Southern Derbyshire CCG, North Derbyshire CCG and Erewash CCG. Top of my list of priorities will be to achieve Parity of Esteem across the county and to enhance the development of integrated and primary care mental health services. I believe the key to better job satisfaction and better care and outcomes lies in the relationships between all those in the Patient & Carer Groups, the NHS, Social Care, Third Sector, Politicians and the Media. As regards health and social care professionals I passionately believe that we joined up to do a good and caring job and so need the artificial non sensical barriers that compromise us on a daily basis to be eliminated. The leaderships role is to empower delivery of patient centred real care (the patients know what is ''real'') and to align each organisation to that aim. The well-being of the workforce, the moral and culture of the organisation and the reputation and future of the health service depends on it. Show less