Untapped Potential : Bringing the voluntary sector ’ s strengths to health and care transformation Tom Wright, CBE NECA/NHS Joint Commission for Health and Social Care Integration
Understanding the VCS ’ role in the health and care system
What did our evidence show?
Charities often work across pathways – working with individuals from diagnosis, through treatment and recovery, to supporting self management and living well
New frameworks for understanding the VCS ’ potential role
An assessment of our collective evidence
What are the barriers to making this happen?
Realising the Value NHS England, the Health Foundation, Nesta and Voluntary Voices five ways of working: • Peer support • Self management education • Health coaching • Group activities • Asset based approaches
VCSE Review Department of Health, Public Health England, and NHS England reviewed the VCSE sector of 35k Charities and 10k social enterprises. Barriers to working with the NHS and councils, included: • Limited opportunities for engagement • Declining funding for some community groups • Complex contractual arrangements to deliver services
The report recommendations include: • funding for voluntary organisations should be transparent, long term and have a greater emphasis on social value • local strategic plans should be based on thorough engagement with local communities and VCSE organisations • statutory guidance for CCGs should be revised to emphasise the need for them to work with charities and social enterprises in order to meet duties under the Health and Social Care Acts.
Common themes: Untapped Potential & VCSE Review • Simpler funding mechanisms • Support collaboration • Less adversarial commissioning practices • Greater co-production • Transformation programmes involve local VCSE • Importance of improving evidence base • Commissioning bodies support good evaluation
“ Collaboration around the needs of people, not the needs of bureaucracies ”
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