Islington Clinical Commissioning Group
working with community sector
Elizabeth Stimson
Islington Clinical Commissioning Group
• Commission health service for Islington population
• Don’t commission primary care services
• GPs
• Pharmacists
• Dentists
• Want to provide more support to people in the community
• Look after people holistically – so see them as a whole
person. This includes the type of support we provide to them
• Looking to community sector more & more when thinking
about this holistic support and what we can commission
through them / what is already happening
• Working with community and voluntary sector to gather
research on how different communities access services and
look after their own health.
I think you cover all of this in your
presentation: Showing impact of your
•services
We get asked a lot if we can provide funding to community services
• Or, how community sector can meaningfully share the feedback
they have
• We are working with public health to make this easier for you.
• Event on 31st March will cover this in more detail
• The information you provide to JSNA – directly goes into how we shape our
health and wellbeing priorities not just in health but across Health and
Wellbeing Board
• The information can be used to shape a business case
• Need to share the impact you service has. This includes:
• How many people you service sees
• What types of intervention you offer: signposting, alternative therapies, life
support, counselling
• The impact this has. To include soft outcome measures, number of successful
links to services, reduction in use of traditional services like A&E or GP (where
it isn’t necessary)
• This isn’t just about numbers but the support you offer.
Soft outcome measures
• We want to support people holistically so they are
empowered to look after themselves and manage their
lives
• It would be great if you could use ‘soft’ outcome
measures too.
• These include things like a person feeling more
confident, being better able to manage their wellbeing,
manage finances, look after their home.
• Warwick wellbeing scale is a well validated tool which
you could use to do this. It’s a qualitative analysis of
the impact your service has.
Questions
Currently, things are developing across health and social care. The way in which they
commission services and work together, a long with a far tighter financial constraint. This
means we need to look at new ways of working across the board. There is no set way
going forward but we are interested in hearing ideas to help support organisations to
support the local communities we all serve:
• What are the pros and cons of consortium working?
• What are the pros and cons about a hub model where a lead organisation funds the
work of smaller organisations (who may have stretched resources etc)?
• Are there any other successful models or ways of working you are interested in?
•
•
What evidence do you currently collect
How do you use it?
•
What are the most important issues for the communities you work with?
•
•
How do you think you could be involved in JSNA?
What ways do you think you could contribute to the call for evidence (please feel free
to be innovative!)
• Elizabeth Stimson
[email protected]
Please get in touch with any questions