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Strategic Commissioning

Workstream:
Health & Well Being - Adult Services
Title
Yorkshire and Humberside Commissioning Development Programme
 
Scope:
 Regional
Funds awarded: 
 £130,000
Lead contact:     
 Kay French - kay.french@yorksandhumber.nhs.uk
Background:
This programme is designed to build sustainable commissioning competence and capacity across Yorkshire and the Humber in order to deliver the Transforming Social Care agenda.  
 
Delivery: 
The programme brief was developed in consultation with ADASS and the JIP and has been refined in consultation with the JIP and the Social Care Regional Commissioning Group. This programme has been developed by the Institute of Public Care in collaboration with private, third sector and community providers and with NHS commissioners and is adapted for Yorkshire and Humber from similar programmes that have been delivered for several Local Authorities across the country and for other regions following meetings with the Regional Commissioning Group and other stakeholders.
 
Outcomes:
Aims:
The overarching aim of the programme is to build sustainable capacity and capability in commissioning across the region to enable commissioners to deliver the TASC agenda.
 
Across the region the demographic change demonstrates an aging population.  It is paramount that morbidity in the later years of life must be reduced if health and social care services are to be sustainable. This calls for better understanding of the key features leading to this demand and an exploration of the key factors which will maintain health and wellbeing in the community. The commissioning programme will equip LAs with a better ability to analyse need and demand and to influence change in the market to respond to this need and build capacity in preventative service.
 
The programme will attempt to move thinking from a focus on outputs to thinking around outcomes – ie quality of life and independence.
 
The programme will:
 
  • Fulfil the regions requirement under LAC circular to stimulate and develop commissioning and also continue to improve relationships with the provider market, each authority will have a set of documents which clearly signal to the market their commissioning intentions. This will increase the range of choice of provider agencies and models of provision, leading to more flexible and sensitive provision and greater choice for service users and carers..
 
  • Help LA’s deliver their performance targets: NI130– Social Care clients
Receiving self directed support. NI135 – Carers receiving a specific carers’ service, or advice and information, following a needs assessment or review.
 
  • Create a common understanding of commissioning across the region which will help facilitate regional co-operation and thus, where appropriate, drive economies of scale and economy of effort in commissioning.
 
  • Work in tandem with other national and regional initiatives on commissioning personalisation and prevention/early intervention.
 
  • Build a sustainable regional resource of knowledge and expertise on commissioning, developing a sustainable knowledge management function to facilitate intelligent and responsive commissioning which is fit for purpose and evidence based.
 
  • Provide the underpinning methodology to lead to more meaningful JSNA’s and flexible service delivery.
 
  • Share and disseminate best practice.
 
  • Develop a range of commissioning tools to be shared across the region. This will deliver efficiencies in terms of time and capacity for commissioners and will also promote consistency and comparability.
 
  • Produce a trained and qualified work force of managers across the region which is able to commission for personalisation.
 
  • Raise the bar in commissioning practice.
 
  • Deliver sustainable resources for effective evidence based commissioning, building a sound economic argument for a shift to prevention, keeping people well and self caring at a time of increasing economic pressure on the public sector.
 
 
 
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