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The Rep Birmingham 30 January 2008 Occupational Therapy in Health and Social Services

The Rep Birmingham 30 January 2008 Occupational Therapy in Health and Social Services

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The Rep

Birmingham

30 January 2008

Occupational Therapy in Health and Social Services

The Future of Occupational Therapy in Health and Social Care

Shelagh MorrisAllied Health Professions Officer

30 January 2008

Health Reform

•Framework

•Systems and incentives to: - drive improvements

- increase responsiveness - reduce health inequalities

•Four related workstreams

Comprehensive Health Reform

Supply-side Supply-side reformsreforms

Demand-side Demand-side reformsreforms

Transactional reformsTransactional reforms

System management System management reformsreforms

Better careBetter careBetter patient Better patient experienceexperience

Better value for Better value for moneymoney

Our health, our care, our say

•Personalised care

•Services closer to people’s homes

•Better co-ordinated with local councils

•Increased choice

•Prevention of illness and maintaining wellbeing

Reform model for social care

Better care

and support

Shaping and building the

market: to create a strong,

varied, flexible market in

social care

Increasing capability: to ensure people working in social care have the skills and support they need to deliver services

People shaping services:

to make sure individuals can choose

the services they want

Strengthening performance management:

to ensure that all services are of a high standard

and are self-sustaining

LAC (DH) (2008) 1

Next Stage Review

•Vision

•Improving quality of care

•A more personalised service

•Clinicians leading change

•Systems supporting local change

•Making best use of resources

Operating Framework 08/09

Priorities for the NHS:

•Improving cleanliness and reducing HCAIs

•Improving access

•Keeping adults and children well

•Improving patient experience

•Preparing to respond in a state of emergency

•Local priorities

Health & Social Care Bill

• Four key policy areas:– Care Quality Commission

– Professional Regulation

– Public Health Protection Measures

– Health in Pregnancy Grant

• + other measures including:– Power to extend membership of NHS Indemnity Schemes

– The extension of direct payments

– The creation of a power for SoS to give financial assistance to social enterprises

– The creation of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care

Health, work and wellbeing

•National Director for Work and health

•Pathways to Work

•Condition Management Programme

•Vocational Rehabilitation

CHPO Priorities

Access

Workforce

Information

Leadership

What this means for patients

• Greater choice and accessibility to services

• Patient-focused services that are evidence based and continually improving

• Greater flexibility to design services around patients’ needs

• Redesign services that put patients at the heart of what AHPs do.

What does this mean for AHPs?

• Identifying need

• Planning new services

• Redesigning services

• Implementing change

• Influencing commissioners

• Multiprofessional working

What does this mean for Occupational Therapists in Health & Social Care?

• Flexible workforce

• Emerging roles/New Roles

• New Ways of Working

• Competences

• Leading change

Opportunities and Challenges

Let us begin…

Ask not what your country can do for you –

ask what you can do for your country

John F. KennedyInaugural address

20 January 1961

Engagement, Involvement & Leadership

Ask not what reform can do for you –

ask what you can do to use reform

to improve patient care

Resources

AHP BulletinAHP [email protected]

Chief Health Professions Officer Chief Health Professions Officer websitewebsitewww.dh.gov.uk/chpo

[email protected]