Health & Social Care: mapping the changes

Emma BaylinDevelopment Officer: Health and

Networks, Involve Yorkshire & Humber

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• Facilitate partnerships that improve health and reduce health inequalities

• Champions the work of voluntary and community organisations to improve health, well-being and care.

• Connecting voluntary and community organisations with policy and decision makers in the NHS

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• connect policy makers with VCS, to shape & improve health & care services for local communities.

• inform VCS about changing health structures• champion better commissioning & co-

production of health, well-being & care services between statutory and VCS

• influence health & social care policy through sending powerful, evidence based, co-ordinated messages to government

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• Period of massive transition in health and care structures

• The implementation of the Health & Social Care Act 2012 ("The Act") required the largest ever transition programme in the history of the NHS.

• Impacts strongly on the work of the vcs and the people it supports

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Regional Structures: Yorkshire & Humber

• Academic Health Science Network

• NHS England – Strategic Clinical Networks and Senate

• Public Health England

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http://www.regionalvoices.org/

http://www.involveyorkshirehumber.org.uk/health-social-care/

•Resources

•Current projects

•Healthnet

•Who’s who in Health Guide