The purpose of the Specialised Commissioning Group is to secure specialised services for the 4.2 million population of Kent, Surrey and Sussex. The South East Coast Specialised Commissioning Group is hosted by West Kent PCT.
What are specialised services?
Broadly speaking, specialised services are medical conditions, which have low patient numbers and are high cost. The remit of Specialised Commissioning is to make the best use of scarce resources such as expertise, high tech equipment and specialised treatments, ensuring that there are sufficient services for patients. These services are financially risk shared across a number of PCTs, thus minimising the financial exposure for any individual PCT.
SECSCG also manage a number of contracts and agreements with tertiary providers on behalf of the PCTs in South East Coast. The purpose of these arrangements is to cover those specialised services where local providers do not have expertise. The normal referral route would be from a consultant in a local trust to the tertiary provider; however, there are some services that do not exist locally that GPs can refer direct to a tertiary provider.
If you require any further information about specialised services, please complete the enquiry form on this website.
