Healthy lives, healthy people The Public Health White Paper

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Healthy lives, healthy peopleThe Public Health
White Paper

• Dr Adrian Dawson
• Director of Public Health
• Bournemouth and Poole

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The White Paper

• Builds on Equity and Excellence liberating the
  NHS
• High level vision for public health designed to
  improve and protect the nations health and
  improves the health of the poorest, fastest
• Complements personalisation and prevention agenda
  for adult social services

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Highlights

• Statutory duty for local authorities to improve
  the health of the population
• Health premium available to local authorities to
  reward them for improvements
• New national Department of Public Health
• Incentives for GPs to be involved

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Local issues

• Local authorities will want to contracts for
  services with a wide range of providers
• Local communities need to be more engaged to
  deliver outcomes
• Local people will have more access to information
  about commissioning decisions, funding and
  outcomes

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Voluntary sector involvement

• DH will work to ensure voluntary sector is
  supported to provide services
• DH hopes that local authorities will use grant
  funding to build local capacity and prevention
  activities
• Commissioning on an any willing provider basis

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Role in Commissioning

• JSNA
• Patient / carer / user feedback
• PLACE based initiatives
• Development and innovation (Planning)
• Big Green Fortnight

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Outcomes framework

• Outlines the government goals
• Improves transparency and accountability
• Provides incentives through the health premium
• Provides indicators for health improvement,
  prevention and protection
• Support partnerships

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Consultation

• What mechanisms would best enable local
  authorities to utilise voluntary and independent
  sector capacity to support health improvement
  plans?
• What can be done to ensure the widest possible
  range of providers are supported to play a full
  part in providing health and wellbeing services?