This section provides you with information on changes to the health and social care environment for you to use when writings bids, planning services and for your professional development.
Smart guides to engagement with Clinical Commissioning Groups
The Smart Guides to Engagement series is supported by Department of Health and compiled by Centre for Public Scrutiny are for everyone working in or with clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). The guides include:
- Working with HealthWatch.
- Working with representatives.
- Engagement for commissioning.
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Introduction to engagement.
Health and Social Care Bill gains Royal Assent
On the 27 March 2012, the Health and Social Care Bill gained Royal Assent to become the Health and Social Care Act (2012). The implementation of the Act will see clinical leaders, patients’ representatives and local government take new roles in shaping services.
T3SC guidance on Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
This draft guidance aims to support health and wellbeing boards and their partners in developing joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs) and health and wellbeing strategies. Joint JSNA’s are the means by which local leaders work together to understand and agree the needs of all local people, with the joint health and wellbeing strategy setting the priorities for collective action. Taken together they form the pillars of local decision-making, focussing leaders on the priorities for action and providing the evidence base for decisions about local services. The Government’s ambitions for health and wellbeing clearly envisage clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and local authorities jointly leading the local health and care system, through Health and Wellbeing Boards and in collaboration with their communities.
See T3SC’s
JSNA guidance response to this draft guidance, a full consultation will take place in the summer once government has digested this initial feedback.
See T3SC’s
JSNA guidance response to this draft guidance, a full consultation will take place in the summer once government has digested this initial feedback.Joint Strategic Needs Assessments – Resources for Engagement
Voluntary Organisations Disability Group have produced a Briefing and a Template for the Voluntary Sector on engaging with their local JSNA. There is also a template for the statutory sector on engaging with the voluntary sector. For more information: www.vsnw.org.uk/activities/health
Healthy Lives, Healthy People, Update and way forward 
(HM Government, July 2011)
Includes statements on:
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Clarifying the role of local authorities and the Director of Public Health in health improvement, health protection and population healthcare.
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Proposals for who is responsible for commissioning the different public health services.
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The mandatory services local authorities will be required to provide.
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The grant conditions to be placed on the local authority public health grant.
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Establishing Public Health England as an Executive Agency to provide greater operational independence within a structure that is clearly accountable to the Secretary of State for Health.
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Clear principles for emergency preparedness, resilience and response.
Healthy Lives, Healthy people: Our Strategy for Public Health in England White Paper
(Department of Health, November 2010) – T3SC briefing
This paper builds on the vision for the National Health Service (NHS) that was set out in ‘Equity and Excellence – Liberating the NHS’ but focuses on the need to improve Public Health (population health whether that be of the
country or of a local area such as Tameside).
country or of a local area such as Tameside).
Public Health Observatory Profile for Tameside (2011)
Health Profiles is the Department of Health’s programme to improve availability and accessibility to heath and health-related information in England. Produced annually they give a snapshot overview of health for each local authority in England.
White Paper - Equity and Excellence Liberating the NHS - briefing
(Department of Health, July 2010)
The Coalition Government’s White Paper on the national health service (NHS) setting out the most dramatic whole system changes the NHS has seen since its inception. From abolishing Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s), expanding the creation of social enterprises to unprecedented proportions, to the future of Local Involvement Networks (LINks) the next few years is set to be very different and challenging for all health providers including those from the voluntary, community and faith sector, but will undoubtedly bring many opportunities too.
Fair Society, Healthy Lives: Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010 (The Marmot Review) - T3SC briefing
This policy briefing is a strategic review of the health inequalities in England, and looks of the key areas of recognising and reducing health inequalities, the briefing also provides recommendations and policy objectives in regards to health inequalities.
NHS Tameside and Glossop – Changes
In line with the national changes to the NHS and Pubic (population) Health including the abolishment of Primary Care Trust’s there have been significant changes to who provides services locally, for an overview please see www.tamesideandglossop.nhs.uk
Our Life in Tameside – Health Inequalities Strategy (2009-19)
This strategy aims to reduce health inequality (the gap in life expectancy between the richest and poorest) in the borough, an area that many voluntary, community and faith groups contribute to. The strategy was developed in consultation with network members through the ‘Health is Everybody’s Business’ conference in 2009.
Delivering Real Improvements, Value and Efficiency (DRIVE)
(for larger groups)
DRIVE is Tameside Council’s strategic plan for delivering efficiency savings while maintaining quality provision for the communities of Tameisde. It is split into several projects one of which is the ‘Development of an independent provider market – with particular emphasis on the voluntary, community and faith (VCF) sector’.This project aims to increase the capacity and capability of the sector to deliver public services. T3SC has been working with local authority commissioners and groups to share experiences and best practice, explore processes and opportunities and open a dialogue between providers and commissioners through the DRIVE VCF Reference group.
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