Dermatology Services

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NHS Hillingdon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is considering its future Commissioning Strategy for the Provision of LEVEL 3 Consultant-Led Community Dermatology Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service CATS. The service will form part of an integrated Dermatology service across primary and secondary care for the population of Hillingdon. This will entail working closely with GPs, Acute Specialist Service Departments (Level 4) and specialist skin cancer services. There will also be a need to develop links with the local skin cancer multidisciplinary team, RM Partners, and other secondary care specialities such as plastic surgery and Level 4 secondary care dermatology services. The service will be pivotal to the achievement of reduced secondary care waiting times by: • Offering a responsive and effective community based service • Improving skills for assessment, diagnosis and treatment of skin conditions within Primary Care • Supporting and improve self-management of skin conditions by patients • Use of new technology, to improve the quality and efficiency of the existing pathways and provide the best experience possible for patients within available resources The service will have three main domains of responsibility: • Triaging, assessing and management of patients with dermatological conditions meeting the Tier 3 inclusion criteria • Treatment • Support and education to primary care professionals The service will benefit patients by delivering a more efficient and effective care pathway. The provision of community settings will support the reduction in demand for secondary care - therefore reducing secondary care demand and releasing capacity to allow secondary care to deal with patients with more complex and urgent needs.