The Peaks and Troughs of Partnership Working

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The Peaks and Troughs of Partnership Working

• Clare Strang Suffolk PCT
• Stella Burgess Suffolk ACS

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The old war horses
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The deep divide

• Health
• National funding
• National politics and priorities competing with
  local need
• Services free at point of entry
• Illness culture
• Episodic approach

• Social Care
• Central funding
• Locally controlled
• Political pressures(local and national)
• People are subject to financial criteria
• Holistic long-term approach

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Jo WebberNHS Confederation deputy policy director

• I think the challenge for joint commissioning
  is to find a way through this that recognises
  pressures on both sides of the equation and finds
  a way of designing and delivering services which
  is enabled rather than disabled by the financial
  pressures Quote from Commissioning News

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The Partnership

• Value for money
• Good outcomes for our patients/customers
• Develop partnerships with local providers
• Not afraid to stick our heads above the parapet

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Services that Support the Pathway
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Giving people the control