Have you heard about the plans to combine all the Clinical Commissioning Groups in South East London into one organisation: Our Healthier South East London?

Our Healthier South East London would be the regional coordinator of the national NHS Long Term Plan. If implemented, the present six Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley will be dissolved and a new six borough South East London CCG set up from April 2020. An ‘integrated care system’ across health and social care services will also be developed.

The NHS Long Term Plan is the NHS response to changing health care needs, population growth and constrained health and social care budgets. The aim is to enable decisions that need a regional approach and to promote more integrated, out-of-hospital and preventive care. The argument is that this will set up health and social care services for the long term future.

You can read more here on the Healthwatch Lambeth website.