Active Ageing Alliance Partnership*

Briefing note to support invitations to local delivery plan area workshops

Introduction

This short briefing note has been developed to provide information on the work of the Active Ageing Alliance Partnership (AAA Partnership) to date and to encourage stakeholders in local delivery plan areas to attend the half day workshops planned for early December in each of Lancashire’s five local deliver plan areas (LDPs).

Integration and Better Care Fund

There has been a national programme of integrating health services and local authority care services for some years. This was given further emphasis with the national requirement for Better Care Fund Plans in 2014. Across Lancashire there are currently three Better Care Fund (BCF) plans; Lancashire County Council, Blackburn with Darwen Council and Blackpool Council. These plans link the development of integrated neighbourhood teams (multi-disciplinary and multi organisational; including primary and secondary care health, mental health, pharmacy, adult social care), with the LDPs which have established different administrative boundaries.

The BCF has a focus on developing integrated services to support people with multiple long term conditions and to have an impact on the number of emergency attendances and admissions to hospitals and to support people to return home from hospital as quickly as possible, measured by a reduction in delayed transfers of care (DTOCs).

The 2016/17 BCF plan set out to engage the voluntary sector in joint outcomes.

Integration and the Voluntary, Charitable, Faith Sector (VCFS)

Over the last few years the VCFS has looked to work more closely together and there are a number of local delivery partnerships now in existence, as well as ongoing work to develop collaboration and mutual support across the whole sector in Lancashire.

As a result of this year’s BCF plan and the work already taking place across the VCFS with a number of VCFS organisations having been involved in the STP (Sustainability and Transformation Partnership) development and active in the work in the LDPs there was a proposal, made by Lancashire Sports Partnership, Age UK Lancashire, The Stroke Association, Galloways Society for the Blind and Lancashire Mind to develop a needs led partnership of voluntary sector organisations and local public sector. This partnership’s purpose is to build specialist expertise and capacity in grassroots and community partners and a delivery chain of non-medical tiered support for service users and their families, ensuring added value and expertise within communities.

BCF and Active Ageing Alliance Partnership

The Lancashire BCF has agreed to support the work of the Active Ageing Alliance Partnership to work with VCFS partners and local public sector partners to develop a service delivery model that will:

  • Eliminate the current disjointed nature of service provision between VCFS organisations and between the VCFS and public sector, and further ensure services are wrapped around the need of Lancashire residents.
  • Will provide a consistent model of service delivery that is replicable at speed and scale with integrated neighbourhood teams; and which is flexible enough to fit with the emerging LDPs and proposals for accountable care mechanisms.
  • Establish a model of service provision that is more effective and efficient and will support the statutory public sector in the first instance in impacting more significantly on the number of delayed transfers of care.
  • Develop a wider network of non-medical service provision to ensure better coordination of VCFS resources and improve access for those requiring the services and to plug gaps that are not able to be filled by statutory public sector providers.

Developing the Active Ageing Alliance Model

The Active Ageing Alliance Partnership has established a programme of work to develop a firm proposal for the Lancashire BCF Steering Group. This work will:

  1. Co-design the model of service delivery, with VCFS organisations, NHS and local government providers
  2. Develop the capacity and capability of the proposed supply chain and lead provider arrangements
  3. Develop a business case to continue to secure commissioned contracts through the BCF for 2018/19 and onwards.

To do this a Model Design Project Team has recently been established and a workshop was held to add more detail to an initial proposed outline model which was presented to the BCF Steering Group in October 2016 that encouraged the BCF to support the AAA Partnership.

Local Delivery Plan Area Model Design Workshops

To ensure that the integrated VCFS model is robust and is able to be easily replicated and incorporated into local integrated neighbourhood teams and that it can adapt to the future emergence of accountable care plans, it is imperative that it is co-designed.

Co-design means involving numerous stakeholders at the start of the process and so the Active Ageing Alliance Partnership is organising Model Design Workshops in each of Lancashire’s five LDP areas.

These are three hour workshops and will involve, local members of the AAA Programme Model Design Project Team, BCF Steering Group members, BCF programme managers, local government colleagues, clinical commissioning group colleagues, local VCFS organisations and other key stakeholders.

The workshops will have the following objectives:

  • To develop and deepen trusting relationships across the VCFS and public sector network
  • To contribute to the co-design of the AAA Programme’s service delivery model
  • To establish the local context, current and future, in which the model will have to fit
  • To outline the benefits of the model and the impact of the model in relation to local context and circumstances
  • To obtain VCFS organisations feedback regarding if they would like to part of this model.

The workshops are due to take place before Christmas. There is a recognition that this is a busy time of year for operational staff, but the BCF plans have a timeline of May for their production and September for decision making; therefore the AAA Partnership are keen to have a first draft of the service model for the BCF Steering Group’s meeting in January.

*The Active Ageing Alliance Partnership is made up of the following representatives:

  • Alzheimer’s Society
  • Age UK Lancashire
  • Age UK Blackburn with Darwen
  • Better Care Fund Representative
  • CCG Representative
  • CVS Representative
  • Galloway’s Society for the Blind
  • Healthwatch Lancashire
  • Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
  • Lancashire County Council – Adult Social Care Representative
  • Lancashire Disability Sport Forum
  • Lancashire Mind
  • Lancashire Sport Partnership
  • NHS Local Delivery Plan Representatives
  • One Lancashire
  • Redhill Consultants
  • Stroke Association
  • Third Sector Lancashire

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