BCT review of 2015
Sarah Smith
Head of Communications, Engagement
and PPI
Better Care Together
A review of 2015
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Introduction and key events in 2015
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Better Care Together - what we set out to do
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The challenges
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Achievements of Better Care Together so far
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What could have gone better
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The next steps in 2016
2014-2019 Better Care Together – our aim and progress
We want to create communities and services which…
We have a health and social care economy who want to work together to make the changes needed
Key events in 2015…
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Engagement campaign 2015
Detailed planning within and across clinical workstreams
Working together as a system to highlight the cross-cutting issues vital to our success
Better Care Together improvements to services already being implemented
Enabling workstreams shaping their planning to support the changes
A substantive PMO office established and in place
PPI involvement in workstream planning, engagement and consultation planning
Production of the pre-consultation business case
Building relationships with the voluntary and community sector
The challenges…
• Size of the health and social care economy
• Rising demand of increasing, ageing and diverse population
• Leading the way in change on this scale - not many have been before us
• Trying to fix the plane whilst it’s in the air… and travelling at 500 mph…
• Linking together an enormous jigsaw with a number of partners
Achievements of Better Care Together so far - Clinical
Examples
Orthopedic Triage pilot service operational
Transformational plan for children & young people’s mental health
Breathlessness pathway pilot started in November 2015
Recruitment of Learning Disabilities Outreach Team to be fully operational by April 2016
All 3 CCGs working to continually increase the number of patients with care plans in care homes
Recovery colleges rolled out
40 additional ICS beds have opened in the community; a further 40 to open in February, and
another 50 in March
Achievements of Better Care Together so far - Enabling
Examples
All CCGs are supporting the development of legally constituted federations/hubs
Development of first Adult Social Care strategy to cover the LLR area
LLR workforce and OD strategy developed – one of the first examples of a system-wide approach in the
Staff engagement
Year one of BCT programme (2014-15): delivered £87.4M in savings, against a target of £88.1M and
on track to deliver the 2015/16 savings
Strengthened communications channels
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Patient
Public
Involvement Monitoring and Assurance Group (PPIMAG)
• Ensuring patient and public involvement embedded into all parts of the programme and
patient voices listened to
• Representatives work at work-stream level to contribute and shape plans
• Come together to consider key BCT documents: draft pre-consultation document business
case and public consultation document
• Worked closely with work-stream communication leads to develop the communications
plan for the consultation
• Jennifer Fenelon stepped down from the PPI Chair role, Ballu Patel is currently the Interim
Chair
What could have gone better
• Varied engagement and PPI involvement at workstream level, we still have much to
learn and develop
• Pulling together the information we need to deal with some of the tricky issues in
making the changes happen
• The pace of change required, without having anyone who has gone before us
The next steps in 2016
• Approval of to consult from CCGs and partners at top
• Submission to NHS England
• Public Consultation - late spring for three months
• Independent analysis on responses
• Decision-making business case
• On-going engagement and PPI to support and develop the change to the phase of the program