Programme Approach
Our programme is designed to support PCTs as they separate and develop their provider functions and services. The PCTs who have joined the programme share a common view that the success of the Government’s drive to re-shape and improve community health services depends on PCTs themselves taking well-managed and structured programmes of support forward.
The programme provides the framework for PCT provider arms to:
- Assess and configure their core service portfolio and develop a coherent strategy for their provider business
- Develop the governance structures and mechanisms required for separation from their host PCT
- Explore future organisational options and enterprise forms for their provider arm Identify the capability and capacity gaps that might otherwise prevent them having a sustainable and successful autonomous future
- Identify the capability and capacity gaps that might otherwise prevent them having a sustainable and successful independent future
- Develop and implement their start-up plans as an external and independent community health services provider