North West Joint Commissioners Forum Event - 15th December 2009

The Forum held an event in Manchester at which the NHS Information Centre demonstrated the National Adult Social Care Intelligence Service  (NASCIS) as well as a number of other tools (including the latest JSNA data set).

Please see below the presentations from this event:

• The NHS Information Centre - National Adult Social Care Intelligence Service (NASCIS)
• The NHS Information Centre - Quality information for front line services

Dementia and Dignity - Commissioning Implications, 10    February 2009

  The Horseshoe Suite, Haydock Park Racecourse  ,   Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside. WA12 0HQ    

The programme and slides from this workshop held by the North West Health and Social Care Commissioners Forum are now available:

• National Dementia Strategy - Hester Ormiston, North West Joint Improvement Partnership

• Living Well with Dementia - Commissioning Services - Claire Goodchild, Better Commissioning Department of Health, Policy Implementation Support

• Commissioning and Dignity: Dignity Metrics - Ruth Passman, Senior Health Policy Advisor, Department of Health

• Delivering Services to Individuals with Dementia and their Families, Promoting Dignity and Respect - Trevor Brocklebank, Home Instead Senior Care
  

An online evaluation is also available here

Commissioners are reminded that the Regional survey on JSNA and Commissioning is open until 20 February and can be found here. The survey is also attached to this email.

A Survey of North West Commissioners and Workshop Event 29^th January 2009

CSIP North West (on behalf of the North West Joint Improvement Partnership (JIP)) is collecting some survey information relating to the implications of Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Commissioning in the North West. The results, which will be anonymised, will help to design future JIP support to local areas in their delivery of improvements in health and well-being in line with key policy drivers as well as feeding into the work of the North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO), and will also inform local contributions to the recently-formed national JSNA Reference Group.

The following workshop event for commissioners was organised in connection with this survey and the development of JSNAs:

Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Commissioning – What Helps?

More than fifty delegates attended this workshop at Haydock Park. The focus was current developments in Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, and the commissioning implications that arise from these. The programme and presentations from the workshop are available to download here:

• JSNA - What Next? - Dr Fay Haffenden, JSNA Lead, Department of Health
• Local Area Agreements - Danila Armstrong, Senior Policy Advisor, Department of Health
• JSNA - Why, What and How? - Neil Bendel, Manchester Joint Health Unit and Anna Smith, Adult Social Care, Manchester City Council
• Using Information and Intelligence to Inform Commissioning - Andrew Kerslake, Institute of Public Care
• Outcome-Based Commissioning - Joanne Higham, Alcohol Joint Commissioning Officer, Bolton Council
• Developing JSNA as an Advanced Commissioning Tool - Brett Nelson
• Full Programme

Previous Meetings in 2008:

Practice-Based Commissioning - Challenge or Opportunity?

The last meeting of the Forum took place on 24th November 2008 and focussed on practice-based and locality commissioning. Presentations by Dr Louise Edwards (NHS North West) and Professor Chris Heginbotham (UCLAN) on PBC, Jane English (Halton Borough Council) and Natalie Hendry-Jones (NHS Halton and St Helens) on social care in practice, and Gavin Owen (Turning Point) on connected care are available here:

• Practice-based commissioning
• Social care in practice
• Connected care