NHS Wakefield CCG Community Dermatology Service

The NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group (NHS WCCG) wishes to invite service providers to engage with it to help shape the future provision of community dermatology care.

The NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group (NHS WCCG) is a membership organisation of 40 General Practices and has a registered population of over 360,000. It currently holds a contract for a community dermatology service, which ends in early 2016, and commissions local hospital dermatology care from the Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

The NHS WCCG is keen to consider the different possible ways it may commission community dermatology care. Specifically it wishes service providers to submit suggestions of how a community dermatology service may:

Provide specialist advice - to 40 General Practices - on the diagnosis and treatment of dermatological conditions for adults and children;

Use technology to provide specialist advice to General Practices, and to undertake clinical assessments;

Work with primary and secondary care to treat conditions such as skin lesions, eczema, psoriasis and acne, in adults and children;

Provide training and educational opportunities for General Practices on the diagnosis and treatment of dermatological conditions;

Inform what referrals from General Practices should be directed to a secondary care hospital provider; and,

Work with the local secondary care hospital provider to ensure it has rapid access to hospital-based interventions, such as light treatment and patch-testing.

The NHS WCCG would ask that it receives any suggestions by no later than the 19th September 2015. Service providers are free to submit any information that they believe will help the NHS WCCG to understand the differing ways that community dermatology care may be provided.