Teaching Primary Care Services Spend Analysis
Papers to follow
Minutes:
Looking at the TPCT spend on older people is complicated as the money is all within an adults budget and not separated for older people.
There is currently no system like Framework-I to enable figures to be pulled off and there is no single spreadsheet which keeps all over the information together.
Noted that the figures are not fully comprehensive due to the time of year and the resource pressures at the TPCT.
The spend on older people is approximately 9% of the total spend. This correlates with proportion of the population who are over 65 years of age.
Foot health is not included in the figures, this will be supplied to the panel.
It is very difficult to get a breakdown on what is being spent on Dentists and GP’s, but this is being looked at. At the same time the information would again be on adults and not broken down to older people.
Need to be careful when comparing costs and number of people that this cost represents as often the figures can be mis-read. For example, the number of services can be mixed up with the number of people – one person may have more than one service.
The TPCT is moving to a more outcome based way of commissioning services.
Points of discussion
Handy Person project is an open access project. People can self-refer, although a large amount of referrals come go through the Integrated Community Therapy Team. Figures on numbers of people using the service can be accessed from Age Concern.
Query raised as to whether Homes for Haringey benefit from the scheme if a person who accesses the project if in a HfH property. This should be referred by the Handy Person Project should it be the case.
Noted that Acronyms need to be avoided.
HICES – Haringey Integrated Community Equipment Store
RNOH – Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
List of approved traders? Age Concern have this.
Suggested that this should include not only traders, but also dentists, podiatrists etc.
Query as to whether this could be available on the Haringey information sites as may be seen to be favouring certain companies.