Primary Care and Clinical Commissioning

What can Jill Dentith Consulting offer?

• Support to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to develop and embed governance frameworks
• Development of terms of reference for CCGs and their supporting governance infrastructure
• Consider the implications of partnership working including links with Health and Wellbeing Boards and ensure that governance arrangements wrap around these to ensure clear lines of accountability and responsibility
• Support organisations post authorisation to remove any conditions and develop as freestanding bodies
• Support primary care clinicians and staff to develop their governance arrangements in the new and challenging NHS landscape
• Support organisations to take a more strategic approach to primary care development
• Give advice and support with regard to standards of business conduct and conflicts of interest
• Support Local Area Teams with their governance and monitoring roles

What Jill Dentith Consulting can bring:

Jill has experience of supporting Clinical Commissioning Groups and Local Area Teams, and previously Primary Care Trusts and clusters, with their development and governance arrangements. She has a long and positive history of working with GPs as a locality manager to establish primary care networks, GP Fundholding and more recently GP consortia, Clinical Commissioning Groups and GP associations.

Jill successfully developed and led the introduction of clinical governance systems and philosophies through effective working relationships with GPs, other clinicians and managers to implement clinical, managerial and cultural change. Building on this she developed effective locality structures with clinicians and managers delivering on key targets and improving the health and well being of the local population.

Jill has a Masters degree in Public Service Management, the dissertation based on models of primary care.