South West London CCG Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21

Addressing health inequalities Underpinning all our work is the South West London CCG’s commitment to addressing the health inequalities that exist across our boroughs. This past year, the Covid-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd in the United States and the Black Lives Matter movement gave us opportunities for authentic conversations around race, racism and wider inequalities in a way that has not been done before. The message we have been hearing from our communities, clinicians and staff has been clear: we must build on our progress going further and faster to ensure that our services and employment practices are fair, accessible and appropriate for the diverse communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Delivering for local people whilst leading organisational change As well as working in new ways in responding to Covid-19 over the past year, our staff have also been working differently as a result of our CCG merger, and will continue to adapt as we move forward to the likely transition to an Integrated Care System from April 2022. From 1 April 2020, the six borough CCGs: Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth, merged to become NHS South West London Clinical Commissioning Group. Our ambition was for each borough to continue to bring together health and care leaders in a local system to ensure that they remained clinically led and retained the ability to engage with and consider the needs of their local communities. The six CCG Governing Bodies agreed that by coming together we could better drive-up quality and reduce variation in standards and deliver better health and care outcomes for the people in each of our boroughs. Our South West London CCG is a member of South West London Health and Care Partnership. Last year our collaborative way of working was formally recognised by NHS England, and the partnership was formally awarded Integrated Care System (ICS) status in April 2020. As we reflect on the past year, we must also look forward and consider how the government’s White Paper, published on 11 February 2021, affects the South West London CCG. Subject to legislation, the South West London Health and Care partnership as an Integrated Care System will become a statutory NHS organisation, and will incorporate the functions of our CCG and some from NHS England. We will support this transition and continue to champion what has made our CCG successful, including strong clinical leadership and patient voice, the primacy of We must build on our progress going further and faster to ensure that our services and employment practices are fair, accessible and appropriate 10 | NHS South West London Clinical Commissioning Group