Better Commissioning for Mental Health through PbR and other System Reforms

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held in Leeds 10th & London 21st June 2010.

Event & Workshop Evaluation Summary and Presentation Slides
158 people attended the two workshops in London and Leeds.  Representation came from 7 out of the 10 SHA's, 66 of the 151 PCT's, 22 Local Authorities, 13 of which had joint commissioning posts and a small number of people from provider Trusts and other establishments.  People evaluated the day as being useful and the quality of the speakers and workshop was strong reflected in the high percentage of good or above ratings: 76% for the morning speakers and 88% for the afternoon workshop.

Delegates most appreciated the time to network and hear the different perspectives of provider, commissioner and particularly the local authority.  The discussion on the morning and afternoon session on what PbR will be like for mental health scored high and how it links with personalisation. However, consistent feedback was that people wanted more detail on the how and reassurance that lessons from the national pilots and the acute PbR implementation will be applied. 

Delegates could readily identify the opportunities that they saw PbR gave for mental health and overall felt that these should bring improvements in driving up quality for commissioning; the strongest opportunity being seen as the increase in information that will become available and standardisation of language and measurement of outcomes that will allow a better basis for benchmarking and moving towards personalisation.  The outputs from the afternoon workshop sessions on opportunities, challenges and future support required and the ideas written on the evaluation forms for future support are being reviewed and actions will be posted on the website when available.

There were many requests for access to regular briefings and the Department of Healths Mental Health PbR project papers these can all be found on the Department of Health link:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Managingyourorganisation/Financeandplanning/NHSFinancialReforms/DH_4137762

The programme for the day can be downloaded here and a zip file of pdf copies of all the presentations here

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