Stronger together How health and wellbeing boards can work effectively with local providers
Health and wellbeing boards present new opportunities for effective partnership working at the local level, to improve commissioning and achieve better health outcomes. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (“the Act”) sets out the main duties and functions of health and wellbeing boards. These require boards to have strong engagement across their communities – with the full range of providers of any health and/or wellbeing services, as well as patient and service user groups, community advocates, seldom heard groups and commissioners of other services, including police and crime commissioners. Local authorities and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a shared responsibility to undertake Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) and develop Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWSs) through the health and wellbeing board. Together, these will drive local commissioning policies and practice. This report provides insight into how health and wellbeing boards are working and can work effectively with local providers. After examining Introduction
the benefits of engagement, it sets out a framework of different ways boards might approach engagement in their localities, highlighting examples of current mechanisms being used, exploring how these have developed and the advantages of working in these ways. Report findings are based on learning from:
- twenty-two in-depth interviews with health and wellbeing board members and local providers undertaken by the NHS Confederation between October and December 2012
- a session at the NHS Confederation annual conference and exhibition in June 2012 which explored different ways and approaches that health and wellbeing boards can use to engage providers
- a Local Government Association Knowledge Hub question and answer session, held in July 2012, that focused on how health and wellbeing boards will engage and work with providers to improve health outcomes.
Published : 29th January 2013
Publisher : The NHS Confederation [ More From This Publisher ]
Rights : The NHS Confederation
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