Joint working and sharing information

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Joint working and sharing information

• Marcine Waterman

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Joint working

• Current areas of joint working
• ALE Annual Healthcheck (HC)
• ALE NHSLA
• SIC and Core standards
• Future developments
• Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)

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ALE Annual Healthcheck

• Approach
• ALE approach developed to deliver the use of
  resources score as part of Annual Healthcheck
  and to
• provide AC with information required to reach a
  Value for Money conclusion for NHS bodies
  (other than FTs)
• Impact
• On track to produce assessments for 335 bodies
  for 2006/07
• Identified direct overlap between ALE assurances
  and 4 core standards C7a,b,c and C21. Information
  has been supplied to the HC in these cross over
  areas.

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ALE - NHSLA

• Approach
• Alignment of NHSLA governance standard criteria
  with
• ALE internal control assurances
• Impact
• Pilot work at 42 NHS Trusts used by AC auditors
  in 2006/07 ALE assessment
• ALE assessment for 2006/07 to be used by NHSLA
  for bodies selected for review in 2007/08

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SIC and Core standards

• Approach
• Recognised strong link between the SIC and Core
  Standards
• AC and HC undertook a review to check consistency
  of declarations
• Impact
• Recommended that DH encourage Trusts and PCTs to
  regard these as one process
• DH issued guidance to NHS bodies asking for
  greater alignment

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CAA

• Area based assessment which will begin in 2009/10
• To help drive more effective improvement of local
  public services for citizens, especially those in
  need
• Focus on outcomes for communities and on local
  priorities
• Forward looking and preventative regulation
• Greater integration through less duplication and
  more consistency
• More involvement of stakeholders
• Sector led self-assessment and improvement

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Sharing information

• Concordat Objective 1
• Inspections are coordinated with other reviews
  and collections of data
• Key successes - Information sharing protocol a
  reality
• Risk summits
• Scheduling tool
• Recommendations database
• Further work
• Salient findings

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Summary

• Further alliance required to ensure impact of
  concordat activities
• CAA approach is a significant step in the right
  direction
• We recognise we must do more