Programme Update
 

We are delighted to announce that we have just published the report generated by the scoping activity we undertook earlier this year.

Our new website is also now live - visit 3rdsectorteam.alliance-scotland.org.uk and let us know what you think!

Consultations & Redesign Activities in Partnerships
 

Glasgow City

NHS GGC are currently consulting on their proposal to reshape the delivery of rehabilitation services in North East Glasgow. Consultation is ongoing and runs until the beginning of December 2016. More information can be found here.

The Partnership are sharing their IJB papers, locality plans and other relevant information on their twitter feed.

Other Activity in Areas

Argyll & Bute - the Partnership have held a series of engagement events to catalyse locality activity. The four engagement events, held across 11 areas (using videoconferencing facilities), engaged the public, third and independent sectors in a conversation about how everyone can work collaboratively to shift the balance of care and achieve the transformational change that enables the achievement of the National Health and Wellbeing Outcomes.

The themes looked at by the events also constitute half of the HSCP's Focus Areas (Reducing avoidable emergency admissions; delayed discharges; supporting people to live fulfilling lives in their own homes; and supporting unpaid carers). The service delivery and redesign ideas created are being fed into the Locality Plans with the Locality Planning Groups being used as the vehicle to explore and deliver the changes necessary. 

Inverclyde - CVS Inverclyde hosted their annual Third Sector Conference on Wednesday 14^th September 2016, and representatives from the Third Sector Health and Social Care Support Team attended on the day.

The presentations on the day covered a range of areas of interest to the third sector and included presentations on Inverclyde Health & Social Care Partnership’s five key strategic commissioning themes; the changing the landscape of Health & Social Care in Inverclyde; Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC); reimagining community and justice; empowering communities; and procurement.

Moray - The Third Sector Health & Social Care Support Team have been supporting tsiMORAY with the refresh and redevelopment of their Third Sector Health and Wellbeing Forum.  The TSI are working with members of the forum to identify and agree the aim and purpose of the group. This, along with the development of an action plan for the group, will play a key role in ensuring that the third sector have an equal voice in the delivery of integrated health and social care in Moray.  

Integration Update

Check out our Integration Arrangements Spreadsheet for up-to-date information about the integration arrangements across Scotland.

New Advice Notes Published

Prioritisation Process

This advice note complements the Statutory Guidance for Strategic Commissioning Plans, and provides advice on how Partnerships should determine the allocation of their resources. It contains information on what a prioritisation process will require:

• analysis of how total resources are currently spent;
• assessment of the effect of changes in how resources are spent;
• objective evaluation by the Strategic Planning Group;
• ethical evaluation conducted alongside economic appraisal. 

​It also lays out the key characteristics of a good prioritisation process.

It recommends that Partnerships apply a prioritisation process to strategic priorities as a starting point, analysing total resources in terms of performance on outcomes:

• segmented into programmes (that may be defined geographically, by care group, or some other method, e.g. age, deprivation); 
• segemented into locality budgets and aggregated where necessary;
• using individual level data (from NHS NSS) aggregated to programme level.  

It notes the importance of option appraisal, as recommended by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting, and the significant consequences of not using the process highlighted by Audit Scotland.

It also suggests what the role of Strategic Planning Groups should be in investment and disinvestment decision-making and strategic commissioning.

Annual Financial Statements

This advice note defines what Annual Financial Statements (AFSs) must cover to meet their requirement to report the total resources the Partnership have included in the Strategic Commissioning Plan.

• For an Integration Joint Board this means: the payments made by the Integration Authority to the Health Board and Local Authority; and the sum set aside by the Health Board for large hospital services.
• For lead agencies the scope will be: the payment made to the host partner by the delegating partner; the budgets in the host partner for the conjunction functions; and the budget for services provided in large hospitals. 

The first AFS should have been published when the Partnership published its first Strategic Commissioning Plan. Subsequent statements should be published once budget planning has been completed for the next financial year. A summary of this should be produced before the end of the financial year. The AFS should include each and all of the remaining years of the published Strategic Commissioning Plan. 

The advice note sets out the minimum that should be covered in the Annual Financial Statement, in terms of the total amount planned to be spent by the Partnership (and the proportion of the total amount planned to be spent) on different services.

There is a recognition that approximations may need to be made during the initial planning and reporting cycles while information systems are developed and bedded in.

The Scottish Government and COSLA are producing a pro-forma for future Annual Financial Statements that will be issued to Partnerships by late Autumn of 2016 to support the production of Annual Financial Statements in 2017.

New Report on Strategic Commissioning Plans

The Scottish Government have just published a review of the initial Strategic Commissioning Plans produced by the Health and Social Care Partnerships. The Review’s main purpose was twofold: to assist local areas to accelerate the transformational potential of their plans; and enhance their ability to deliver sustainable new models of care and support, focused on improving outcomes.

Given this, the review considers the Strategic Commissioning Plans in the context of strategic commissioning and locality planning and hence provides a useful analysis of the current context, as well as the content of plans and the key areas for further development. The review also includes a list a delegated functions and a breakdown of the localities by partnership area as appendices.

The Team have also produced a briefing on the content, highlighting the main content that will be of interest to the sector. 

Briefing: Summary of Scottish Government Review of Strategic Commissioning Plans ​

Third Sector Learning Set

News

National Standards for Community Engagement - Revised Edition

The National Standards for Community Engagement are 7 clear principles designed to support, inform and improve the process of community engagement. Each principle includes a short headline statement, a set of indicators, and some good practice examples. These standards were re-launched September 2016 to coincide with ongoing implementation of the Community Empowerment Act. More information available here.

Technology Enabled Care Action Plan

The Technology Enabled Care Action Plan sets out a number of national and local actions to enable citizens to be able to access and use technology to better support their health and wellbeing whilst at home and in their communities.

Whilst the existing eHealth Strategy to 2017 will continue to drive forward the infrastructure and technological requirements underpinning activity, this plan aims to support a transition to an integrated Digital Health & Care Strategy for Scotland from 2017 by building on the National Telehealth & Telecare Delivery Plan to 2016.

With an overall aim of contributing to preventative and personalised care and support to empower more people to manage their own health and wellbeing at home, this Action Plan is underpinned by 6 core principles:

• Citizen-centred
• Flexible
• Familiar
• Facilitative
• Innovative
• Efficient

Learning from the Meaningful and Measurable Project

This was a Collaborative Action Research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which brought together partners with a shared interest in adopting a focus on personal outcomes in health, social care and other human services.

The project explored the tension between:

• Meaning: the need for detailed, contextualised information on individual experience to inform individual planning and service improvement
• Measurement: the need to aggregate information on personal outcomes to inform decision making at organisational and national levels.

The final report from the project, Key Messages, and Summary, all published September 2016, are available on the iHub website.

Consultations and Surveys
 

Scottish Government

Consultation on Social Security in Scotland - The consultation process will enable the views of stakeholders to be reflected in primary legislation to be introduced to the Scottish Parliament by June 2017 - open until 28th October.

Scotland's Oral Health Plan - A Scottish Government Consultation Exercise on the future of Oral Health Services - This consultation exercise will help to shape the oral health care and NHS dental services - open until 8th December.

NHS

NHS Lanarkshire is consulting on its new healthcare strategy, 'Achieving Excellence' - open until 1st November.

Useful Resources
 

• Audit Scotland have published their audit of Social Work in Scotland
• The ALLIANCE have published their draft response to the social security consultation

Events
 

• Coping with Cuts - funding vs. outcomes, 26th October, Glasgow: This session will discuss the real relationship between funding/contract income and outcomes and the tensions between organisational, individual and commissioning outcomes and how we balance these in a context of reducing resources.

• Supporting Better Futures for All, 2nd November, Glasgow: This event for housing support providers and commissioners will support participants to consider how they can use the Better Futures Outcomes Framework in their work. 

• 100 Stories, 17th November, Edinburgh: This event is for those interested in co-production, co-design and/or storytelling, and the purpose of it is to co-produce the idea of gathering 100 stories to support the co-production movement, including sharing approaches, practices, and examples.

• CCPS Conference 2016, 24th & 25th Novermber, Dunblane: This two day conference offers participants a wide range of workshops and keynote presentations and is a "must not miss" for anyone with an interest in social care. 

Contact the Team

We are keen to do anything we can to help so please get in contact if you think there is anything we can do.

You can contact us through our general enquiries email or by contacting any of the team direct: -

General Enquiries:                     comms.coordinator@alliance-scotland.org.uk

Programme Director:                 jaqui.reid@alliance-scotland.org.uk

Communications Coordinator: sarah.wardrop@alliance-scotland.org.uk

Policy Support Officer:              benjamin.mcelwee@alliance-scotland.org.uk

Development Officer:                 jeanette.donnelly@alliance-scotland.org.uk

Development Officer:                 kerry.gilligan@alliance-scotland.org.uk

Development Officer:                 louise.rogers@alliance-scotland.org.uk

You can also find more information about the programme and some of our resources on our Programme website.

And keep up to date with our activities by following the project’s Twitter feed @3rdsecHSC.

About the Programme

The programme is being delivered by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) with its delivery shaped by a partnership between: The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE); the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland (CCPS); Voluntary Action Scotland (VAS); and the Scottish Government.

The programme is supported by a grant from the Scottish Government.