Building Health Improvement Capacity and Capability

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Building Health Improvement Capacity and
Capability

• Dr Judy Jones
• Acting Regional Director of Public Health

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Today

• Update you on national policy relating to Health
  Trainers
• Review the evidence-base for Health Trainers
• Disseminate learning from the Derbyshire Early
  Adopter site and the
• East Midlands Health Trainer hub Partnership
• Provide you with opportunities to explore the
  issues for your own locality through this
  afternoons workshops, networking during breaks
  and the QA panel session after the main speakers.

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Introductory Session

• Set Health Trainers within a wider framework
• National Context
• Our Health, Our Care, Our Say
• Choosing Health
• Agenda for Change
• Regional Context
• Investment for Health
• East Midlands Health Improvement Workforce Task
  Group

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Health Social Care Workforce

• A large resource for Improving Health Reducing
  Health Inequalities
• 1.3m NHS staff, employed by over 10,000
  practices, Trusts and PCTs
• 1.4m employees in social care, with over 25,000
  employers, providing a service to around 1.7m
  adults at any one time
• 5bn spent by NHS and social care sectors on
  training and developing staff

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The Health Improvement Workforce

• Extends beyond health and social care to other
  sectors
• Other Public Sector employees
• Private sector
• Third sector
• Within each, we would be able to identify
• Wider workforce
• Practitioner workforce
• Specialist workforce
• Leadership workforce
• A model we have most consistently applied to the
  NHS

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Ultimately, we need ..

• The right people
• With the right skills
• In the right places
• At the right time.

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Health Trainers

• NHS accredited staff who will
• help people
• in their community
• to make changes in their lifestyles
• in the interests of their health and wellbeing.
• Drawn from their community

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Our Health, Our Care, Our Say

• This white paper sets out the direction for
  community services
• Better Prevention Services with earlier
  intervention
• More Choice and a louder voice
• More on tackling inequalities and improving
  access to community services
• More support for people with long-term needs
• This will be achieved by .
• Shifting resources into prevention
• Better joining up of services at local level
  (Co-location)
• Encouraging innovation
• Different providers, especially from third
  sector

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In the future

• Closer integration of health social care
  workforce planning
• Better alignment between service design and
  workforce planning
• Investment in training and development of staff
  working in support roles
• Tap into the potential of groups of people who
  have not been attracted into health social care
  and who have limited or no access to learning
  opportunities.

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Choosing Health Making healthy choices easier

• Called for a systematic approach to workforce
  planning and development
• Charged PCTs SHAs with leading the development
  of a workforce development plan for improving
  health

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Big Wins Investing in the Workforce

• Engaging the NHS workforce
• Improving the health of the NHS workforce
• A national workforce strategy and competency
  framework
• Developing local capacity and capability
• Supporting the development of new roles School
  nurses, Health trainers.
• Health Trainers also a Big Win in Personal
  Health

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In the East Midlands

• Investment for Health
• Improving Health
• Workforce development is a cross-cutting issue
  for our Choosing Health Task Groups and
  Investment for Health Priority Objectives
• Regional leadership new East Midlands Health
  Improvement Workforce Task Group