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East Lothian Health Network, The Public Partnership Forum in East Lothian Integration of Health and Social Care – what should public representation and involvement look like? Wednesday 12th June 2013 Update on Integration of Health and Social Care in East Lothian Plans for a new integrated adult health and social care partnership for East Lothian are at an advanced stage. A new shadow board is being established that will be chaired by Mike Ash. Membership of the new shadow board will include four East Lothian Councillors. The councillors on the board will be: Donald Grant, Jim Goodfellow, Shamin Akhtar and Stuart Currie. Membership of the board will also include non executive members of NHS Lothian Board: Graeme Warner and Alison Meiklejohn and NHS staff partnership representative: Thomas Miller. A decision has still to be reached on what public/patient or carer representation will be on the board. David Small has been appointed as Joint Accountable Officer for Health and Social Care in East Lothian. He will take up his responsibilities on 1st August 2013 and will work closely with the Shadow Board and the East Lothian Community Health Partnership (CHP) to manage the transition between now and the 1st August and after that date. The shadow board will in due course take over the management and budget for health and social care services in East Lothian. East Lothian CHP will continue to manage services until this time. It is important to be aware that changes to management structures will have a positive effect on delivering the care provided to service users within East Lothian. This reform, known as the integration of health and social care, has four main objectives: 1. That health and social care services are firmly integrated around the needs of individuals, their carers and other family members; 2. That they are characterised by strong and consistent clinical and care professional leadership; 3. That the providers of services are held to account jointly and effectively for improved delivery; and 4. That services are underpinned by flexible, sustainable financial mechanisms that give priority to the needs of the people they serve – rather than the organisations through which they are delivered.
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East Lothian Health Network, The Public Partnership Forum in East Lothian Integration of Health and Social Care – what should public representation and involvement look like? Wednesday 12th June 2013 Following a consultation period last year, in which East Lothian Health Network participated, the Scottish Government has now published their response. This can be found online at here at www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/02/4208 .
The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill, relating to the Integration of Adult Health and Social Care, was published on 28th May 2013. It can be found online here at www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/Bills/63845.aspx . For a paper copy, contact Meriel on 0131 446 4822 or
[email protected]. As a voice for service users, it is important that the Health Network is actively involved in the transition to integration, to ensure that the outcomes for people who use health and social care services remain at the heart of the change, and to ensure that people are involved effectively in the future development of services. A sub group of the health network is reviewing how best to ensure effective public and service user involvement in the work of the new Health and Social Care Partnership. They are looking at how people are involved and engaged now, and ways this could be improved in the future new structure. They are contact service user groups and others as part of this process. This topic will be discussed further at future business meetings.
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