About the Kent Health Commission
The Kent Health Commission will use new national reforms to help
reshape health and social care in Kent.
It will examine how GPs, local government and health and social
care commissioners can work together to:
- Redesign Kent’s health and social care services according to
local need
- Implement the reforms to health and social care in a way which
improves service quality and health outcomes for the residents of
Kent
- Harness local expertise to improve services in the way which
best meets local needs
- Join up services in the interests of patients, enabling easy
access to the services they want
- Empower local health professionals including GPs to develop
better services that are more accountable to local people
- Forge links between different local health and social care
providers, enhancing productive working relationships in the
interests of patients
- Ensure that new commissioning organisations such as the GPs’
clinical commissioning groups have the right support to implement
change
- Identify and spread examples of good local practice
It will produce a vision for health and social care in Kent by
the end of 2011, and will engage with the public and health
professionals during 2012 on how this can be implemented.
If you're a patient, receive health services at home or in the
community or are a health professional, find out how you can tell us your views.