Health & Social Care

The Health & Social Care Network met on Wednesday 29th June to discuss forthcoming changes to the health service and opportunities for the sector.  You can download the full agenda as well as the speakers presentations below.

The new framework contract comes at a time when Adults and Communities is transforming the way it delivers services to citizens. Our Business Transformation programme aims to improve social care services for adults in Birmingham, so that people have more choice and control over those services and can stay more independent for longer, in a way that suits them. Our proposed changes comply with the new CQC regulatory framework.

This is a period of change for citizens, service providers and the Council, and so we are holding a number of events to inform the market place about the new commissioning model, future ways of working and ultimately, to launch the new framework contract.

You should be aware that Adults and Communities’ recently completed a period of consultation on the ‘Vision for Adults Social Care’ in Birmingham. The consultation closed on 2nd March 2011 and your comments and suggestions were considered and helped to shape the final recommendations, which were agreed by Cabinet on 14th March 2011. We would like to thank you for your patience during this time.
 

The network met to agree a response to the Government's NHS White Paper: Liberating the NHS.
You can download the network's response here: http://www.assembly3.org.uk/assemblys-response-health-white-paper-liberating-nhs

The response was fed back to the Department of Health for consideration.

Gateway Family Services: host of Birmingham LINk, attended the meeting to discuss how the Assembly can work with the LINk. Attendees also discussed the impact of the funding cuts on organisations and beneficiaries.

Each of the Assembly's thematic networks met in May to explore how the voluntary and community sector can engage and support Birmingham's Total Place Priorities.