RE: transforming community services

[Guest guest]

Thanks, .

Re the resource pack, a key phrase may be Effective Health... as the

Comprehensive Area Reviews begin in 2009,

commissioners will increasingly have to monitor outcomes of their own needs

assessment (JSNA) and the resultant services delivered.

Reducing infant mortality is a key indicator that is likely to related to the

delivery of home visits and informed signposting to specialist or social care

resources.

The pack also mentions learning disabilities several times: both preterm

babies and babies with genetic syndromes/complex disabilities have a high

mortality

in the first year of life: without effective parent support, parent-child

bonding and signposting to condition-specific services, fewer disabled

infants will survive.

Sounds like a role for some profession that enacts salutogenesis....

Woody.

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From: on behalf of Cowley

Sent: Tue 20/01/2009 13:59

Subject: transforming community services

Dear all

Two new documents have come out of the DH in the last week, which

(heartsink!) provide the definitive guide to expectations about how

services are to be commissioned in future, leading to 'world class

commissioning'. I think we are all going to have to get used to a

lot of new language, quickly, as the plan is for this new way of

thinking to be in place for the next round of contracts, ie, from

April 2009. The document that sets out the new 'currency' includes a

lot of this terminology, such 'children's service, subdivided into

'pre-school health' and 'school health' as one example. Former block

contracts, and contracts for services labelled according to the

professional group that delivered them, will be out. The 'resource

pack for commissioners' is full of lots of case examples, although

from a quick flick through none would give any clue about how to

commission what have hitherto been known as 'health visiting

services,' although there are a lot of interesting examples of other

services under both the 'health and well-being' label, and under the

'children's services' label.

best wishes

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