The Labour Party conference - on the fringe

I spoke at the Labour Party conference fringe meeting on 'The future of the NHS' on Tuesday. It didn't take long.
The main points I made were the successes so far, our aims as a CCG, and our priorities for the future.
In the last year we managed to turn around a Manchester wide deficit of £30M to a balanced budget without cutting services. We have invested £1M in community services, reduced urgent care activity by 6% and planned care activity by 10%. We have achieved this by improving access to Primary Care, better management of long term conditions, and integration at a strategic level with CMFT and Local Authority.
I told them that ' informed by the views of local people, and working closely with other health and social care professionals, central Manchester Clinical Commissioning group will design services which are high quality, safe and affordable, and which support all communities to be the healthiest they can be'
I told them that in three years we aim to improve life expectancy by a year, reduce by a third the number of avoidable re admissions, raise the percentage of people with long term conditions to the expected rate, to develop a process for reducing harm in general practice, and to manage people at the end of life so they 80% die in their preferred. Overall, as well as balancing the budget we want to shift a significant proportion of resources from secondary care into community or primary care.

I think it went well. We didn't get into the issues of outsourcing services to the private sector, or the difficult area of resource allocation. Another day perhaps