VONNE Health & Wellbeing Ebulletin
This is the latest health and wellbeing policy news produced by Elaine Hill, VONNE's Health and Wellbeing consultant. Contact her at elaine.hill@vonne.org.uk
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Healthwatch Northumberland Annual Survey
Healthwatch Northumberland is considering its priorities for 2017/18 and would like to hear about your experiences of health and care services over the last 12 months and what you believe their priorities should be.
You can access the survey here.
If you would like this questionnaire in an alternative format, please e-mail: info@healthwatchnorthumberland.co.uk / 03332 408 468.
NHS RightCare mental health and dementia data packs
The data will support discussions about best use of mental health resources and help to identify unwarranted variations in each local health economy.
These packs contain data across a range of mental health and dementia services. The packs are split into stages along a mental health pathway, for example Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) and enable local health economies to compare their performance with their ten most similar CCGs.
Each stage also includes a combination of case studies, tools and guidance from around the country, helping to disseminate best practice to support CCGs wishing to introduce new and improved ways of working.
You can download the packs here.
Department of Health Review of care and support for children and young people with complex needs
The Department of Health has published a review of care and support for children and young people with complex needs involving mental health, learning disabilities and/or autism.
Dame Christine Lenehan was asked by the Department of Health to take a strategic overview and recommend what practical action can be taken to co-ordinate care, support and treatment.
Dame Christine#s report makes 11 recommendations for government departments and partners at a national level on how to improve the system.
You can read the full report here.
NHS Organisations undertake extensive community engagement on the future of hospital services
Voluntary and community sector organisations have held over 100 conversations with local groups to find out what they think about plans for acute hospital changes in County Durham, Darlington and Teesside.
The NHS Better Health Programme, in partnership with the Voluntary Organisations' Network North East (VONNE) has been working with local and regional voluntary sector partners, to complete a three-month engagement exercise. This has involved a series of conversations with smaller voluntary and community sector groups and organisations across the area. The work will enable the Better Health Programme to build a full picture of the needs of all parts of the community, and groups that experience health and wellbeing inequalities and enable members of those groups and communities to influence the health services they use.
The full VONNE report is available for download here.
To find out more about the NHS Better Health Programme and how you can get involved, please email necsu.betterhealthprogramme@nhs.net.
Cancer registration Patient Information Leaflet
An information leaflet has been created for health professionals to distribute to cancer patients explaining what the cancer registry is and what it does. This leaflet should be given to cancer patients to help them understand:
- why information about cancer is recorded
- the benefits of recording cancer data
- how this information is used
- how they can see their record
- how they can have their information removed
You can read the leaflet here.
You can also request a leaflet by e-mail: NCRASenquiries@phe.gov.uk
New mental health briefing - statistics on prevalence and services
This briefing published by the House of Commons addresses frequently asked questions about mental health, including: how common are mental health problems? How long do people wait to access talking therapies? How much is spent on mental health services?
You can read the full report here.
New guidance on combatting high blood pressure
Public Health England has published guidance to help providers and commissioners to reduce blood pressure through improved prevention, detection and management.
You can learn more here.
NHS Efficiency Map
The HFMA and NHS Improvement have worked in partnership to update and revise the NHS efficiency map. The map is a tool that promotes best practice in identifying, delivering and monitoring cost improvement programmes in the NHS. The map contains links to a range of tools and guidance to help NHS bodies improve their efficiency.
You can learn more here.
Support for people with health conditions and disabilities in the workforce
NHS England, along with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department of Health (DH), will invest £70 million over the next four years to test different ways to support people with a disability or long term condition to get in and stay in work.
The government has launched a national consultation on work and health and is asking health professionals including commissioners to have their say on the best ways to transform employment and health support. The consultation closes on 17 February 2017.
You can read more here.
Bringing new care models within reach of general practice
The primary care home is rapidly gaining favour as the acceptable face of new care models. A model supported by the National Association of Primary Care, is now being piloted at 15 test sites and proving popular with GPs because it represents less radical change for general practice. The nearest pilot site for the North East is South Durham Health CIC.
You can learn more here.
Public Health Glossary launched
NHS Health Education England has launched an online glossary of public health terminology. Their aim is that these terms will help to inform investment in training and workforce development in prevention and population health.
You can read more here.
Better Care Fund Support(BCF)
NHS England has commissioned Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and partners to provide a range of BCF implementation support in early 2017. This includes:
Four masterclasses and four webinars on priority themes associated with making integrated care work in practice. Events will be led by an integration expert, and spread across the country.
Regional networking support: SCIE and PPL consulting will work with Better Care Managers to support regional networking and peer-to-peer support.
You can learn more here.
NHS England Announces £101 Million New Vanguard Funding
NHS England has announced £101 million of new funding to support and spread the work of the new care model vanguards.
In addition to the funding, the vanguards will continue to receive support from NHS England and other national bodies to implement their plans, including how they harness new technology such as apps and shared computer systems.
You can learn more here.
Care Quality Commission consultation on its next phase of regulation
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched document ‘Our next phase of regulation: A more targeted responsive and collaborative approach’ which follows the CQC strategy for 2016 to 2021, setting out an ambitious vision for a more targeted, responsive and collaborative approach to regulation so that more people get high-quality care.
CQC would like to hear views on a number of proposals for implementing the five-year strategy.
You can read more here.
Updated resources from Patient Online programme
NHS England's Patient Online programme has updated its toolkits for Clinical Commissioning Groups, GPs and NHS trusts with advice on promotion of online services to patients. It looks particularly at booking and cancelling appointments, ordering repeat prescriptions and viewing GP records. The updated versions contain information on updating websites as well as copy for press releases and social media. The programme has also developed a time saving calculator and a range of fact sheets.
You can learn more here.
Using Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) to transform health, care and wellbeing
NHS England has published a briefing on the more effective use of allied health professions (AHPs). Aimed at leaders and decision makers, the document provides examples of innovative AHP practice and a framework to help develop local delivery plans.
You can read more here.
Cancer taskforce recommendations: progress report
Public Health England has published a progress report on the public health aspects of the recommendations of the independent cancer taskforce.
You can learn more here.
Delegated commissioning case studies
NHS England has produced case studies to show how CCGs are using delegated commissioning of primary medical services to drive improvements for their local populations.
You can read the case studies here.
Annual Report on Mental Health
NHS Digital’s annual Mental Health Bulletin provides a comprehensive picture of people who used adult secondary mental health and learning disabilities services.
- An estimated 1,805,905 people were in contact with adult mental health and learning disabilities services at some point in the year.
- This means that an estimated 3,444 people per 100,000 of the adult population in England accessed adult mental health and learning disabilities services.
- An estimated 5.6 per cent (103,027) of people in contact with adult mental health and learning disabilities services spent time in hospital during 2015/16.
You can read more here.
Government response to mental health taskforce plan
The government has accepted the recommendations made by the mental health taskforce in its Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. Some of the 58 recommendations were for NHS England, which has published its own response in Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.
You can read more here.
End of life care must be for the whole family
Families with dying children must be put at the heart of care, new guidance from NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) says. NICE says those working in health and social care must ensure that other family members get the practical and emotional support they need to care for a person at the end of life.
You can read more here.
Strategic Partner Programme seeking your views
The Accessible Information Standard sets out requirements for NHS and social care providers to identify, record, flag, share and meet the information and communication support needs of people with a disability, impairment or sensory loss.
NHS England is reviewing the Standard to assess impact and ensure it is ‘fit for purpose’ and is inviting views form various stakeholders and organisations which you can view here.
The deadline for feedback is 10th March 2017.
Support from Strategic Partners is sought in promoting participation in the review by service users, as well as submitting views directly.
NHS RightCare publishes Commissioning for Value STP packs
NHS RightCare has published Commissioning for Value ‘Where to Look’ packs for sustainability and transformation plan (STP) areas. Each pack covers aggregate data at STP level for all the CCGs that make up an STP footprint. In the short term the documents will help STPs and the CCGs within them to focus on the most appropriate pathways for planning purposes. In the medium to long term, the data contained can ensure planning and delivery is focused on the biggest opportunities to improve outcomes and reduce spend.
Queries can be directed to england.healthinvestmentnetwork@nhs.net.
You can read more here.
NHS Better Health Care Programme in County Durham and the Tees Valley
The Better Health Programme is about how your local NHS can provide you and your families with the best possible services over the next five years, and beyond. Health leaders, including doctors, nurses and other care professionals in County Durham and the Tees Valley are looking at how we do this, in discussion with their colleagues and with patients and their representatives.
You can learn more about how to book on the events here.
NHS North Durham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) interested in your views
NHS North Durham CCG is a partner in the local transformation plans for improving mental health services. As part of this work they are undertaking reviews on a range of current services so that we can develop plans to make services more accessible with improved integration of both mental and physical health care for individuals.
They are interested to hear your views, experiences and expectations for accessing psychological therapies (Talking Changes) and further development of mental health liaison services i.e. specialist services providing mental health care in a physical health setting e.g. A&E and hospital wards.
Local public consultation events:
Focus Group - Tuesday 21st February 2017, 10am—12 noon Pelton Community Centre DH2 1DE
You can learn more here.
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