Stockport Together Update

28th June 2016

Tim Ryley, programme director for Stockport Together, gave a short update on the progress of activity for last week:

• We have now submitted our bid to the Greater Manchester Transformation Fund (GMTF), asking for £20.5m over the next three years. The bid is being assessed at the moment, but have asked for more information to support the bid. We’re expecting a decision by the end of June.

The proposal document below summarises our plans, and is accompanied by a series of supporting docs. The proposal captures what we’re doing in Stockport and relates the plans back to, and how it fits with the GM priorities for the region.

Tim would like to express a big thank you to everyone who worked on the submission.

• The next priority is building on the GMFT bid to create business plan documents for each workstream. These will build on the content, but will supply more detail and identify any overlaps etc., and support required. Key to succeeding will be to avoiding silo working and addressing some important issues, including IT. This needs to be addressed in order to make full scale, ambitious changes.

The organisational finance departments will now need to get close to the business cases for each workstream to support the development of plans, and will require a lot of support from wider teams in order for them to be completed by the end of this week.

We are expecting to get business plans through governance by the end of July.

• Stockport is now receiving intensive support for the MCP contracting process. We were one of six sites chosen to have some extra help, as we go through the procurement process.

The support consists of regular phone calls and face to face meetings. The team has received feedback that Stockport is furthest ahead compared to other areas, but we’re still facing very challenging timescales.

• As part of the Stockport Together work, we’re changing the way we commission health and social care services in Stockport, by developing a new ‘Outcomes Framework’. Working with staff and members of the public, Stockport is changing the commissioning structure to ensure we have a sustainable way of delivering health and social care for the future. The new framework will be based on identified segments of the population, and will look at a combination of the pricing, how we pay, and how providers cost things.

• Another key piece of activity will be to ensure that the enablers (IT, estates, workforce, BI and finance) are fully linked to the workstreams aims and objectives. The workforce teams are being asked to consider what enabler support they will need going forward.

The enabler teams are working closely with workstream leads to understand the programme objectives, and what support they’ll need from the enablers to deliver it.

• An informal drop-in session for health and social care staff is taking place at: Gatley Medical Practice on Friday, July 1st from 12-1pm. This is a chance for staff to find out the latest updates and share your views about changes under Stockport Together. Questions raised so far have included:

• Integration and joint working is a large part of Stockport Together but how will this to achieved?
• How will teams communicate with each other better (systems, pathways, IT, new technologies)?
• How will all the different services, from prevention to voluntary to acute, be more aware of each other?

These informal drop-ins will have Margaret Malkin, Acting Director of the Community Healthcare Business Group, and Mark Fitton, Director of Operations, Adult Social Care and Integrated Care Organisation, and Stockport Together representatives in attendance to answer questions. For information, email clarissa.langham1@nhs.net

• A feature ran during the news over the weekend on Imagine FM about neighbourhood working in Stockport Together. Jacqueline Hall (ANP) and Chris Head (integrated team leader) were interviewed and asked about what working together means for people in the borough. A ‘listen again’ link will be circulated in next weeks’ bulletin.