VCS Health and Community Wellbeing Strategy Group Priorities for 201011

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VCS Health and Community WellbeingStrategy Group
Priorities for 2010-11

• Overview of the Health and Community Wellbeing
  Landscape

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A bit of history

• Our health, our care, our say Department of
  Health 2006
• Putting people more in control of their own
  health and care
• Strong and Prosperous Communities Department
  for Communities and Local Government 2006
• Giving people and communities more influence and
  power to improve their lives
• Government agenda to increase VCS involvement in
  public service delivery

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Healthy Gloucestershire2008-2018

• 10 Year Health Strategy
• Strategic Aim
• To improve the overall health and wellbeing of
  people living in Gloucestershire and to ensure
  that disadvantaged communities and groups are
  helped to experience similar outcomes to those in
  the more affluent areas

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Healthy Glos broad objectives

• Reduce the health inequalities gap
• Make healthier choices the easiest choice
• Support and enable people to improve their health
  and well-being
• Empower and mobilise local communities for health
  and well-being
• Lead by example through having a healthy and
  health promoting workforce

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Priority Areas

• Active Ageing, Better Access to Services for All,
  Putting People First
• Reduce Obesity
• Reduce Alcohol Related Harm
• Reduce Smoking Prevalence
• Improved Sexual Health
• Healthier Workplaces
• Improved Emotional Health Wellbeing
• Accessible, Healthy and Safe Housing

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What you have said so far

• In 2008 it was agreed that the VCS focus should
  be on obesity, older people and carers
• Important to remember that Healthy Glos Strategy
  is not the only health related work in the county
• VCS have a contribution to make at all levels
  from strategic to hands-on delivery

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Current context

• Joint Commissioning
• Reducing Health Inequalities
• Putting People First Transforming Social Care
• Big Care Debate
• Mental Health and Social Inclusion
• Gloucestershire LINk
• Role of Glos Health and Community Wellbeing
  Partnership (GHCWP)

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Joint Commissioning

• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)
• Ensuring that services are shaped by local
  communities, inequalities are reduced and social
  inclusion is increased
• World Class Commissioning better outcomes for
  people
• VCS feeds into this commissioning process via
  representation at the GHCWP
• JSNA currently looking at Obesity, Older People,
  Learning Disabilities and Children Young People

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Reducing Health Inequalities

• Comprehensive Area Assessment review of the
  GHCWP
• GHCWP aims to narrow the gap in health outcomes
  between communities and groups living in our
  disadvantaged and more affluent areas
• Glos Local Area Agreement (LAA) focuses on
  reducing health inequalities through lifestyle
  factors, and supporting independence for older
  and vulnerable people
• Strategic leadership role of GHCWP needs to be
  reviewed
• Links between district and county not always
  clear
• Clear targets for health inequalities need to be
  set

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Putting People First Transforming Social Care

• Demography living longer but with more complex
  conditions and chronic illnesses
• Higher expectations greater control
• Changing family structures changes to caring
  responsibilities
• Finances need to explore options for longterm
  funding of care

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What does personalisation mean?

• Choice and control over the shape of support
• Cannot be done with social care in isolation but
  needs to be jointly done across housing,
  benefits, leisure, transport, health.
• Needs partnership with a range of providers
  including the VCS
• Implications for the VCS - organisations will
  need to redesign local services around needs of
  communities

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Big Care Debate

• Shaping the Future of Care Together - first ever
  national debate on the reform of adult care and
  support in England
• Spells out a vision for a National Care Service,
  the options for  reform, and how the new system
  could be organised and paid for.
• More joined up working, wider range of care and
  support and better quality/innovation
• Various funding proposals
• Consultation closes 13 November 2009
• http//careandsupport.direct.gov.uk/greenpaper/

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Mental Health

• VCS response to Mental Health and Social
  Inclusion Strategy
• VCS representation on the Social Inclusion Exec,
  and the Action Planning Forum
• Event on 16 October 2009
• How to co-ordinate VCS effort around mental health

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Gloucestershire LINk

• Giving local communities a stronger voice in the
  planning and commissioning of services
• Need to ensure co-ordination of efforts between
  VCS Strategy Group and LINk

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Role of the Glos Health and Community Wellbeing
Partnership

• Oversees the delivery of Healthy Gloucestershire
• Oversees the delivery of Local Area Agreement
  Priorities
• Oversees the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• Role is currently being reviewed

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So what does the VCS need to do?

• What do you see as the current challenges facing
  the VCS?
• How do you think the VCS needs to co-ordinate its
  effort? Do the current Strategy Group Terms of
  Reference still fit the bill?
• What priorities should the VCS be focusing on?

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