Care Co-ordination Service

Care co-ordination is defined as “a function to help ensure that a patient’s needs and preferences for health services and information sharing across people, functions and sites are met.” Co-ordinating care is especially important for people with chronic conditions and for the elderly, and it is for this group that the CCG is commissioning this service, as a first stage of its Whole Systems Integrated Care plans. The CCG anticipates that the Care Co-ordination staff will support care planning in GP Practices...