Attachment 4
VISION 2020 Rehabilitation and Low Vision Committee
Work plan 2016-17
1. Local Authorities
Item / Actions / Lead / Deadline / Outcomes / Outputs /1.1 / RNIB ‘See and Plan’ campaign / MB / SM / JF / Report - July 2016
Events - July – Sep
2nd Push of Campaign – Nov 2016
Freedom of Information request early 2017
Scorecard to be developed re achievements and targets / Everyone experiencing sight loss has an initial meeting and an agreed plan of action within 28 days of first contact with the local authority. / · Campaign report completed
· Events, including implementation in 9 local authorities
· 2nd phase launched
· In discussion with 24 LAs + 7 more, re budgets
1.2 / Influencing NICE Guidance ‘Adults with lifelong or very severe hearing or visual impairment: health, well being and social care’ / MB / To be determined / ·
1.3 / Action to enable local societies to monitor local authority Care Act compliance and hold commissioners to account. / MdC / MB / Ongoing / Poor local services are addressed and improved, so people get the rehab they need / · RNIB work in Rotherham completed and reported on
· London campaign lead by TPT
· Linking up with RNIB London Campaigns to work in collaboration
2. The Workforce
Item / Actions / Lead / Deadline / Outcomes / Outputs /2.1 / Explore the opportunity to create apprenticeships via The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills trailblazer apprenticeships scheme. / SL / CS / Submission – 26.06.16
completion of Standards by end of 2016 / Increase in recruitment of Rehabilitation Officers to meet need / · Expression of interest submitted
· If successful, develop the standards
· Assessment process being determined
· Assessment schedules to be developed with employers
· Students on scheme from 16th January 2017
2.2 / Making CPD a mandatory requirement for RWPN members / SL / Launch – July 2016
Implemented from Jan 2017 / Standards safeguarded, to underpin high quality services / · Structure launched
· System implemented
3. RNIB Early intervention and rehabilitation project
Item / Actions / Lead / Deadline / Outcomes / Outputs /3.1 / Principles of Good Practice in Rehab / JF / SM / Launch - July 2016
Evaluation after 12 months / Blind partially sighted people get the right help, at the right time, from the right person / · Launch on RNIB website
· Dissemination plan, in tandem with ’See and Plan’ campaign
· Case studies in process of being gathered
· Supports developed for managers
· Evaluation
3.2 / Information pack ‘Sight Loss – What we needed to know’ / JF / SM / Launched – 25.06.16 / Newly certified people get prompt and accessible information / · Launch
· Piloted in 3 areas, with cut-off 9th December 2016
· Evaluation in quarter 3 (late December 2016)
· Final version developed and kept updated
· Dissemination plan
3.3 / Cost avoidance study / JF / SM / Information about what costs are avoided by provision of rehab / · Published end December 2016
· Dissemination plan, targeting Health and Wellbeing Boards
3.4 / Mentoring programme for training providers / JF / SM / Autumn 2016
Mentor recruitment Jan 2017 / Awareness of rehab raised with training providers, to improve consistency of practice. / · Launch at end of 2016
· Accreditation scheme developed
4. Low Vision
Item / Actions / Lead / Deadline / Outcomes / Outputs4.1 / Develop a UK-wide Low Vision Standard / MBa / To be determined / High quality support for people with low vision across the UK / To be determined
Meeting in December 2016 to determine what low vision framework will look like (for England)
4.2 / Reach those sectors of population which do not access low vision services / MBa / To be determined / People who are hard to reach gain the low vision support they need / To be determined – being considered by Children’s Low Vision Group
5. Integrated Care
Item / Actions / Lead / Deadline / Outcomes / Outputs5.1 / Project to explore benefits of Integrated Care approach eye health and sight loss / MJ / Board set up Sep 2016
Specification by Sep
Review: 3 – 6 months / People with sight loss experience a seamless journey on the Eye health and Sight Loss pathway / · Programme Board set up. Next meeting March 2017
· Literature Review in process
· Evidence review
· Specification for review to be determined
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