'The National Centre for Involvement Future implications and Challenges for the NHS Ian Brittain Dir

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'The National Centre for Involvement Future
implications and Challenges for the NHS Ian
BrittainDirector of Communications
Bassetlaw Partnership for Health - Annual Event
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Outline

• The NHS Centre for Involvement
• Working with staff and NHS organisations to
  improve practice in involvement
• The Future of Involvement current developments
  and an update on the transition

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The NHS Centre for Involvement

• Response to an European-wide Tender
• Successful Consortium
• University of Warwick
• LMCA - an alliance for health
• Centre for Public Scrutiny
• The Centre announced in May 2006
• The Health Minister Rosie Winterton
• Start of set-up phase from June 2006
• Formal launch November 2006
• Funded for three years

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The aims of the Centre

• Promote the value of patient and public
  involvement
• Create a one stop shop for information and advice
• Build the capacity of organisations, staff and
  patient-citizens
• Develop and disseminate practical resources
• Generate evidence-based models best practice
  examples
• Identify and maximise learning opportunities
• Develop networks and communities of interest
• Practice what we preach

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Organising our work

• Research and Best Practice
• Learning and Support
• The People Bank
• Patient-Citizen Exchange/Patient and Public
  Involvement Exchange
• Organisational Development

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How we work with staff and NHS organisations

• Working across ten strategic health authorities
• Baseline assessment of involvement
• Specific priority areas to model best practice in
  involvement
• Sharing the learning
• Generating resources

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Evidence to underpin practice

• Annual Review of the state of PPI
• Systematic analysis of Trust websites
• Survey of NHS organisation Chief Executives
• Survey of PPI Professionals
• Survey of members of Patient Citizen Exchange
• Structured Review
• Patient and public involvement and engagement in
  health and social care
• Service evaluation and development
• Impact of the PPI activities

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Horizon scanning UK policy changes

• Patient and public involvement in World Class
  Commissioning
• Practice Based Commissioning
• Increased commissioning from non-NHS providers
• Increased Patient Choice
• Local Government and Public Involvement Act

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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health
Act (2007)

• Reminder about the legislation
• The Role of LINks and how they will work
• Changes to legislation before it was passed
• Next steps in terms of funding

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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health
Act (2007)

• Amongst other areas, the Act
• Abolishes patients forums and the Commission for
  Patient and Public Involvement in Health
• Updates and strengthens the duty on NHS bodies to
  involve and consult
• Establishes Local Involvement Networks (LINks)

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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health
Act (2007)

• Local Involvement Networks (LINks) will
• promote, and support, the involvement of people
  in the commissioning, provision and scrutiny of
  local care services
• enable people to monitor, and review, the
  commissioning and provision of local care
  services
• obtain the views of people about their needs for,
  and their experiences of, local care services
  and
• make these views known and make reports and
  recommendations about how local care services
  might be improved, to persons responsible for
  commissioning, providing, managing or
  scrutinising local care services.

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Piloting LINks

• 9 Pilot and Early Adopter Sites
• Capturing the Learning
• Ongoing dissemination through our website
• Working with
• the Healthcare Commission,
• the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement
  in Health
• Commission for Social Care Inspectorate
• Department of Health (and others)

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How will LINks work?

• LINks will enable NHS provider organisations to
  engage with the local community to improve
  services
• LINks will set their own agenda and focus on
  issues of concern to local people and seek to
  influence change
• LINks will be integral in commissioning decisions
  to ensure they reflect the views of local people

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How will LINks set up?

• Established in each Local Authority with social
  services responsibility
• LINks will be supported by a Host organisation
• Contracted by Local Authority
• Commission/deliver tailored programme of learning
• LINks will operate both proactively and reactively

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Funding arrangements

• 10,000 already allocated to Local Authorities
• 84 million available to support the LINks agenda
• Funding allocated according to size and
  demographic makeup
• Base line of 60,000

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• One of the key roles of civil society
  organisations is to hold
• health care providers as well as governments
  accountable
• for what they do and how they do it.yet without
  
• mechanisms enabling people to hold officials
  accountable,
• stewardship may falter. To enable effective
  pressure for
• accountability, accurate information about health
  and health
• systems performance is required throughout civil
  society. (WHO, 2003 126)

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The NHS Centre for Involvement

• To find out more about Links
• Visit www.dh.gov.uk/PatientPublicInvolvement
• To get more Patient and Public Involvement
  resources
• Visit www.library.nhs.uk/ppi
• To find out more about current patient
  involvement practice or the LINks early adopter
  sites visit
• www.cppih.org or
• www.nhscentreforinvolvement.nhs.uk
• Contact us at nhscentreforinvolvement_at_warwick
  .ac.uk
• See our website www.nhscentreforinvolvement.nhs.u
  k