
Active Ageing, Cancer, End of Life Care and Long-term Conditions

Active Ageing, Cancer, End of Life Care and Long-term Conditions Portfolio
Our Strategy and Aims
- To work together for healthier lifestyles
- To help people to manage their conditions and live better
- To promote person-centred care
- To support recovery and enable independence
- To improve End of Life Care
Services will move from being disease specific, to being integrated, holistic, patient centred, flexible, responsive to needs of both patients and carers, co-ordinated and closer to home. Our current priorities include:
Respiratory |
A range of projects to improve diagnosis, management and treatment and patient education |
Person Centred Care |
Key to delivery of the ‘Care Outside of Hospital’ Programme, we are working hard to promote and embed patient activation, self-management, shared decision making and care planning across GP practices and neighbourhoods to benefit patients all over Sheffield |
End of Life Care |
Projects to support further development of care for patients at the end of life, both through specialist palliative care services and through training and development of generalist staff |
Age Better in Sheffield |
A five year Big Lottery funded programme to reduce social isolation and loneliness in older people in Sheffield. The CCG is one of the core partners. For more information, see http://www.agebettersheff.co.uk/ |
Cardiovascular Disease |
Programmes include the ‘National Diabetes Prevention Programme’ for people at risk of developing type 2 Diabetes and the ‘Diabetes Treatment & Care Programme’, delivering improved patient outcomes in four clinical areas. Also, work on stroke prevention and improvements to stroke and neurological rehabilitation pathways |
Care Outside of Hospital’ |
The focus is on transforming the health and care system outside hospital to enable more people to live well in their community |
Dr Andrew McGinty, Clinical Director for Active Ageing, Cancer, End of Life Care and Long-term Conditions
Andrew is also the CCG's Caldicott Guardian and will champion the importance of respecting the confidentiality of patient identifiable information, as well as supporting the Caldicott Guardians of our member practices.
"I would like to see our member practices and their patients continue to have a greater voice in how we describe and commission excellent care that is useful to our patients."
The portfolio staff are:
Dr. Andrew McGinty |
Clinical Director |
Dr. Anthony Gore |
Clinical Director |
Sarah Burt |
Interim Deputy Director of Delivery - Care Outside of Hospital |
Karen Danvers |
Commissioning Manager |
Ceri James |
Commissioning Manager |
Eileen Hall |
Commissioning Manager |
Lewis Carvell |
Business Support Officer (maternity cover) |
Rachael Winterbottom |
Business Support Officer (maternity leave) |
If you wish to get in touch, please e-mail SHECCG.LTCportfolio@nhs.net