Healthy lives, healthy people The Public Health White Paper Dr Adrian Dawson Director of Public Health Bournemouth and Poole
The White Paper Builds on Equity and Excellence – liberating the NHS High level vision for public health designed to ‘improve and protect the nation’s health and improves the health of the poorest, fastest Complements personalisation and prevention agenda for adult social services
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
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
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
Role in Commissioning JSNA Patient / carer / user feedback PLACE based initiatives Development and innovation (Planning) Big Green Fortnight
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
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?