Better Care Fund Weekly Update - 1 October 2015
Dear colleagues,
In this week’s update:- Better Care Support Team at NCAS Conference
- Call for examples of best practice: workforce
- Payment models and risk sharing workshops
- Peer Review Programme
- Better Care Exchange
- #OurDay
- Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015
- Meet the team
This year’s National Children and Adult Services Conference is being held in Bournemouth on 14-16 October. Organised by the Local Government Association (LGA), Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), and Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), NCASC is an important event for all those involved in the delivery of services to children and adults.
The Better Care Support Team will be attending the conference. Although we’re not running any specific sessions this year, we can be found around the Department of Health and Local Government Association stands.
We’ll also be holding a drop in session for anyone who has questions about the Better Care Fund – come and find us in the Department of Health lounge area from 13:00-14:00 on Thursday 15 October.
Call for examples of
best practice: supporting a workforce to deliver integrated care
Here in the Better Care
Support Team, we’re keen to capture and share examples of the good practice
that’s going on at a local level around England. We’ll be using this regular
note to call for examples of best practice on a number of themes – today we’re keen
to hear about an integrated workforce.
We are looking for any information you’d like to share with other local areas about your integrated workforce plans and strategies. Templates and guidance can also be useful, even if it isn’t a finalised draft, as it may be valuable for other areas trying to develop similar roles, job descriptions or competency frameworks.
We are specifically keen to find out more about:- What is working around recruitment, retention and redeployment;
- Careers pathways in integrated teams, or new roles;
- Core competencies for new hybrid roles e.g. public health career framework
- Practical examples of cultural and behavioural change
Payment models and risk
sharing workshops
The Better Care Support
Team is working with Monitor and the NHS New Models of Care Team to address the
challenges and barriers to integrated care around payment models and risk
sharing. We’ll be running a series of workshops focussing on:
- Designing payment models
- Technical assistance
- Modelling tools which simulate different types of risk sharing.
- There will be a Peer to Peer aspect – whereby Pioneer and Vanguard sites who are advanced in this area will be sharing their learning, experience and knowledge.
BCF Peer Review
Programme
Areas which have expressed an
interest in participating in the Peer Review Programme have been contacted with
an outline of the key elements of the programme, so that they can understand
the commitment required.
Better Care Exchange
update
We’ve got a new face in
the team here – Yasmine Hafiz will now be leading on the Better Care Exchange.
You can find out more about her in the ‘Meet the Team’ section below. For those
of you who aren’t aware of, the Better Care Exchange brings together all key documents relating to
integrated care and makes them easily accessible. It also provides a platform
for collaboration and shared learning by putting you in touch with colleagues
working on similar issues across the country.
#OurDay Wednesday 18
November
This year #OurDay, the day when the
Local Government Association ask people working in local government to tweet
about what they’re doing to serve their community, is taking place on 18
November. Last year’s #OurDay saw over 3,000 people participating on Twitter,
sending more than 16,000 tweets.
It would be great to see some tweets from local BCF projects and teams – so please get involved.
Health and Social Care
(Safety and Quality) Act 2015
The
Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015 comes into force today – 1
October 2015. The Act reinforces existing good practice and obligations on
health and social care professionals and provides statutory support for the seventh Caldicott principle that – “the duty
to share information can be as important as the duty to protect patient”.
It includes two new duties:
· A requirement for health and adult social care organisations to use a consistent identifier (the NHS Number) for sharing data for direct care of a patient.
· A legal duty requiring health and adult social care bodies to share information with each other for the direct care of a patient.
The Information Governance Alliance (IGA) is offering new guidance and a short series of webinars to support the implementation of the new Act. You can find out more, including the dates and topics of the webinars from the ICA news website - http://systems.hscic.gov.uk/infogov/iga/newsMeet the Team
This week, we meet Yasmine Hafiz, our new Better Care Exchange curator.
Yasmine Hafiz – Better Care Exchange
Yasmine is just completing her first month with the Better Care Support Team. She is currently working on improving the Better Care Exchange (have you logged in recently?) and contributing to learning and insight projects. This is her first posting on the Civil Service Fast Stream, and she is delighted to be working to help integrate health and social care.
Yasmine recently completed an MSc. at the London School of Economics in Comparative Politics. Prior to that, she spent a year and a half in New York City working as Associate Religion Editor for the Huffington Post. She graduated from Yale University, where she studied Political Science and hosted a weekly radio show.
Yasmine has spent time living in Kuwait,
Arizona, Connecticut, Saudi Arabia, Istanbul, and Singapore, but is happiest in
London. She has strong feelings about the NYC subway vs. the tube (apparently
the tube is much better!). Outside work, she enjoys exploring parks, wandering
around art museums, going to concerts, and attempting to cook new dishes.
Strange fact – Yasmine once came 3rd
in a national rifle competition in Kuwait. We’re all a bit more nervous around
her now that we know this…
Anthony Kealy
Better Care Support Team Programme Director
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