Carers Conference – 9 th June 15 Dr Peter Green Chief Clinical Officer NHS Medway Clinical Commissioning Group Sharon Dosanjh Head of Mental Health Commissioning NHS Medway Clinical Commissioning Group

Medway CCG Strategy Our CCG Commissioning Strategy ambitions are “To narrow the gap in health outcomes between those with and those without a mental health condition; improve access to children and adult mental health services and develop a primary care led response to supporting people in the community”

Our Vision “Increased awareness of MH conditions and reduced health inequalities through better prevention, early diagnosis and treatment ; achieving parity of esteem” Patients will have access to recovery and rehabilitation services, with robust community services that will offer them the least restrictive setting available and be the most appropriate to meet their needs

Commissioning Priorities Parity of esteem – Additional investment Mental Health Crisis Concordat – Partnership Working 24/7 A&E liaison at Medway Hospital PD Hostel Implementing the Dementia care pathway Improved community services – Primary Care Mental Health Workers – Rethink – MEGAN CIC – Wellbeing Café

Partnership Commissioning NHS Medway CCG / Medway Council

Priorities from the Care Act assuming new / extended responsibilities exploring the requirements under the Act understanding what these mean to existing policies and practices how these impact on existing resources creating a mechanism to deal with an “unknown quantity”

What we’ve done so far mapped the requirements against available resource and reconfigured (internally) to respond realigned the offer and that is now out for consultation reviewed existing policies that are affected by the changes brought about by the Act and need revision reviewed the Strategy and that is currently in draft preparing for consultation creating a reactive citizen’s portal offering access to advice, guidance and information

Next steps Understand the unfolding time table Be clear about future developments in legislation and be prepared to react Continue to develop and load up to date information to the portal so when it goes live (late summer) it will have the most up to date information Continue to consult on developments

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