Greater Manchester Health Partnership

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Greater Manchester Health Partnership
Maximising the Third Sectors Contribution to
Health and Addressing Health Inequalities
Neil Walbran, GMCVO 28th April 2009
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Health Partnership Project

• Audit Commission review of Health Inequalities
  06/07
• Improve commissioning arrangements with Greater
  Manchesters third sector
• Initial project funded to scope out work
  necessary to build involvement of sector

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HPP Two Research Areas

• Informing Commissioning
• Supporting Commissioning

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Informing Commissioning

• Third Sector Health Services Directory
• Ongoing piece of work
• Local providers at your fingertips
• Reduce transaction costs
• Live document
• Tracking survey
• Evidence-base for what Third Sector does best
• Emergent pathways
• Unintended outcomes

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Care Pathway

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Mapping Example BASIC 1

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Mapping Example BASIC 2

Public health priorities the organisation
addresses

• Examples of impact
• 38 jobs saved in the last three years (Vocational
  Rehabilitation has an overall 74 success rate)
• 245 people back to work in the last three years
  (giving an estimated 62 million in savings in
  benefits)
• 4000 service users are kept informed and
  supported in self care via a mailing list.

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Example 2 Brook in Oldham

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Brook in Oldham 2

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Supporting Commissioning

• Report Commissioning Possible
• (Third Sector Organisations experiences in
  Public Sector Commissioning)
• Qualitative analysis with recommendations
• Willingness to engage from both sides
• No support framework for engagement
• Highlights good practice
• No one shining example
• No GM consensus from commissioners little
  flexibility

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Research Outcomes

• Recommendations in Commissioning Possible
  used to inform local commissioning arrangements
• Through the Third Sector Health Services
  Directory the market offer has been described
  to a certain degree

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Future work

• Directory becomes internet-based
• Consortiums
• Protocols for negotiated tendering processes

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Contact Details
Neil Walbran (Health Partnership Officer) 0161
277 1036 neil.walbran_at_gmcvo.org.uk
www.gmcvo.org.uk/health
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Any Questions?