As commissioning responsibility for many specialised services has been delegated from NHSE to ICBs, the Public Health team within the NHSE East of England region has been working closely with ICB colleagues to ensure that equality of access to services for all demographic groups is considered when setting ICB commissioning strategies.
We were commissioned to support them in this by completing a review of current levels of access to services in the six ICBs within the East of England, highlighting any apparent differences these between geographic areas and between demographic groups.
As public health specialists within Arden & GEM’s Health and Care Transformation consultancy, Solutions for Public Health worked closely with Business Intelligence colleagues to produce the requisite data and to carry out detailed analysis of these from a public health perspective.
Findings described areas of apparent inequality and suggested possible reasons for these. The report has been shared by NHSE with ICB colleagues to help inform commissioning decisions.
You can read more about this work here: SPH case study – East of England Specialised Services Delegation Support
