Transcript Health Reforms. What you need to know.

A guide for those of us who aren’t in
Parliament
A new world of letters to remember
QIPP(Quality, Innovation, Productivity, Prevention)
CCG’s (Clinical Commissioning groups)
HWB’s (Health and Well being boards)
JSNA’s (Joint Strategic Needs Assessments)
JHWA’S (Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies)
LPN’s (Local Professional Networks)
NHS CB (NHS commissioning Board)
Health Watch
Health England
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How can you influence effectively at local level, where
decisions about priorities and strategy will be made?
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How can you work together as a sector locally to
engage?
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How to make sure that qualitative information that small
groups have access to about needs and experiences of
services is fed in to JSNA and joint health and wellbeing
strategies?
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CCG’s
There will be 212 Clinical Commissioning
groups in England.
The CCG boards (made up of GPs, other health
professionals and lay members) and will be
responsible for making decisions on priorities for
commissioning local health services.
They control the money!
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HWB’s
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From 2013 local authorities will have responsibility for
leading a Health and Wellbeing Board which will provide
the overall strategic direction for improving health and
wellbeing in their area.
Members will include: Director of Adult Social Services,
Director of Children’s Services, Director of Public Health,
elected leaders, a representative of each CCG in the
area, a representative of the local HealthWatch and
other members as determined by the local authority.
YOU!?
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JSNA’s
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Each HWB will have the key responsibilities of
developing a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
and a joint health and wellbeing strategy for
each local authority area. These will determine
local health priorities and develop a plan to
deliver improvements in those priorities.
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Local HealthWatch
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Local HealthWatch are replacing LINks (Local
Involvement Networks) from autumn 2012. They
will retain similar functions as previously, and will
be gaining new responsibilities. HealthWatch
have a statutory seat on the HWB.
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CCG’s
Develop your relationships
 Decide who you want to develop a relationship with; if they are in
place it may be easier to engage with leads on eyecare as their
specialism rather than the Chief Executive.
 Unless you already have a relationship with your local GPs, assume
they know very little about your organisation, Be clear about needs
and how your organisation meets the needs of your community
 Collaborate: The more you can work with other organisations to
demonstrate how many people or organisations share your
concerns and how well your ideas fit in with the priorities of the
statutory organisations, the more notice CCGs are likely to take of
you.
Find out CCG priorities so you can tailor your message to them
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HWB’s
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Get to know the members which will include: the Director of Adult
Social Services, Director of Children’s Services, Director of Public
Health, elected leaders, a representative of each CCG in the area,
a representative of the local HealthWatch and other members as
determined by the local authority.
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The HWB may also include representatives from the third sector. If
the third sector hasn’t yet been engaged in development of the
HWB in your area, approach the local authority to find out how you
can get involved.
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Collaborate with other local 3rd sector organisations to work on third
sector input to the HWBs by joining the voluntary sector forum in
your area.
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JSNA’s
HWBs will have the key responsibilities of developing a Joint
Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and a joint health and
wellbeing strategy for each local authority area.
Talk to your local authority team working on the JSNA to influence
priorities in health and social care. Ensure you have good evidence
to influence the JSNA and ensure the issues of the people you work
for are voiced.
Find out when and how your joint health and wellbeing strategy is
being developed and ensure you’re involved.
The UK Vision Strategy has produced information and a template
for JSNA’s and eye care you can find it here:
http://www.commissioningforeyecare.org.uk/
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Healthwatch
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Use HealthWatch to increase your understanding of
what’s happening within health or social care service
delivery and development.
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· Promote involvement in your HealthWatch so that it
becomes an important and powerful voice.
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Resources and information about the changes
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The UK Vision Strategy has produced information and a template for JSNA’s and eye
care you can find it here: http://www.commissioningforeyecare.org.uk/
For background on how the health changes will affect the voluntary and community
sector, look at NCVO and the King’s Fund’s report.
http://www.ncvovol.org.uk/sites/default/files/The_Voluntary_Sector_in_Health_Kings_
Fund_and_NCVO.pdf
VODG’s (Voluntary Organisations Disability Group) has also produced resources on
the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. http://www.vodg.org.uk/JSNA-esources.html
QUIPP
http://www.improvement.nhs.uk/Default.aspx?alias=www.improvement.nhs.uk/qipp
Supporting or developing a vision plan Vision Plan there is lots of good guidance on
this on the UK Vision Strategy page here
http://www.vision2020uk.org.uk/ukvisionstrategy/page.asp?section=199&sectionTitle
=Eye+Health+and+Sight+Loss+Vision+Planning+Guidance
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