Posted on February 25th, 2010
Dorset, Poole and Bournemouth
Organisations involved
At present organisations involved are:
- Bournemouth Council
- Dorset County Council
- Poole Council
- NHS Dorset
- NHS Bournemouth and Poole
- Dorset Police
- Dorset Fire Authority
- West Dorset District Council
- Christchurch Borough Council
- East Dorset District Council
- Weymouth and Portland District Council
- North Dorset District Council
- Purbeck District Council
This is due to increase as the project grows.
Theme
Older peoples’ services
Aspiration
The aspiration of the work is to identify opportunities for genuine service transformation in older peoples’ services in Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole through local innovation and collaboration. It is hoped this will substantially improve outcomes and deliver services at lower cost, drawing on the experiences of service users. Alongside this Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole also hope to make specific recommendations to central government on how barriers to collaboration can be broken down and use the Total Place project to allow greater local partnership working.
What is Dorset, Poole and Bournemouth currently doing?
The project team have been mapping high-level spending by working with finance leads from the partner organisations. A number of key events have taken place, including meetings and workshops with councils and other public agencies, the third sector, older people, community leaders and a simulation day in which the ‘whole system’ approach was explored.
The project team held a brainstorm session with national and local colleagues from DWP. Two ideas are being explored:
- The scope for achieving considerable efficiencies relating to providing information and assessments for the range of benefits to which many older people are entitled.
- The scope for making more effective and targeted use of the money currently used to fund attendance allowances/disabled living allowances.
The main elements of the current work programme are:
Acute: How many older people could be ‘diverted’ from acute health and intensive social care provision and how? What funding would be released?
Community Services: What other forms of support could meet the needs of those people and how can we build confidence in that support? What would these services cost?
Well being: What would a comprehensive, sustainable well-being strategy look like and what would the priorities be? What funding to support this strategy would be available as a result of the efficiencies achieved.
You can find out more information, and download a copy of Dorset, Poole and Bournemouth”s interim report, at their dedicated web page.
Contact
Chris Kippax, Dorset County Council
telephone: 01305 228283
email: c.m.w.kippax@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Category: pilot