Delivering the White Paper in the Thames Valley what workforce do we need

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• Delivering the White Paper in the Thames Valley
  what workforce do we need?
• Quarterly CPD session
• Unipart House
• 20th January 2005

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Objectives

• Consider opportunities of the White Paper
• Understand the implications of the national
  changes
• Understand the role of the TV workforce
  development team
• Influence the development of an effective
  workforce

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Choosing Health Making Healthier Choices Easier

• Making Sense of the White Paper

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Aims and principles

• The White Paper is about making a difference to
  the (health) choices people make (p9)
• Informed by three key principles emerging from
  consultation
• Informed choice
• Personalisation
• Working together in partnership

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Overview

• Chapters
• Health in the consumer society (marketing health)
• Children and young people starting on the right
  path
• Local communities leading for health
• Health as a way of life (health trainers etc)
• A health-promoting NHS
• Work and health
• Making it happen national and local delivery

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Priorities

• Reducing the number of people who smoke
• Reducing obesity and improving diet and nutrition
• Increasing physical activity
• Encouraging and supporting sensible drinking
• Improving sexual health
• Improving mental health

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Delivery mechanisms

• Better information for the public (including
  marketing health)
• More effective working with children and young
  people
• More effective working with local communities
• Increased support to individuals to help them
  make healthy choices
• A re-balancing of the NHS investment
• More working with employers to promote healthy
  lifestyles at work, including the NHS
• Spearhead PCTs

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Making it happennationally

• Regulation
• Regulatory impact assessment
• Take forward proposed legislation in WP on
  smoking, food in schools, underage tobacco
• Resourcing
• Priority to areas of greatest need
• Joined-up action
• Cabinet sub committee to oversee policy
• Six monthly progress reports
• National delivery plan (2005)
• Building partnerships
• National conferences, regional roadshows

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Making it happenLocally

• Standards for services
• New performance framework for all health and
  social care organisations, Standards for Better
  Health
• Targets
• Local contribution to PSAs
• Incentives (extra funding for achieving targets)
• Local Area Agreements
• Support for change
• Modernisation Agency, IDeA
• Revised Health and Neighbourhood Renewal Guidance
• Inspection and performance assessment
• Healthcare Commission, Audit Commission

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Annex B Making it happen

• Evidence and information (response to Wanless
  critique)
• National Institute for Health and Clinical
  Excellence
• Health Information and Intelligence Task Force
  (to implement comprehensive PH information
  strategy)
• Investment in Public Health Observatories
• Innovation and Evaluation Fund (to test new
  models of working etc)

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Annex B Making it happen

• Capacity and capability
• Workforce planning and development to ensure
  people with the right skills at all levels
• Priorities
• NHS health trainers and wider workforce skills
  in behaviour change
• Public health practitioners skilled in health
  improvement
• Specialist practice
• Models for health improvement
• Strong leadership across organisations
• NHS induction programme and curriculum
  development

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Skills in the community

• Work on core competencies
• Partnership with IDeA, OGDs, and NHS employers
  organisations
• Core Curriculum
• Health Trainer Certificate

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Public health practitioners

• NHS and LA
• Guidelines to help PCTs develop roles for
  practitioners with special interest

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Public health specialists

• Expanding training posts
• Strengthening undergraduate curriculum
• New career pathways MMC and A4C
• More flexible pathways
• International recruitment
• Leadership

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Implementation

• SHA DsPH will oversee work to develop robust
  local health improvement workforce plans
• 5million 2005/6
• 10million 2006/7
• Models for local capacity and capability planning
• National workforce strategy Spring 2005
• National Health Improvement Workforce Strategy
  Group