Fast track to integration

NHS West Midlands and ADASS West Midlands are jointly commissioning a fast track development programme for workers in community health, adult social care, children’s service and GP commissioning.

The programme will equip GPs and staff who carry out commissioning or redesign services, with the relevant skills. It also aims to forge close collaborative links between health and social care, necessary for integrated commissioning.

Central to the programme will be developing skills to aid planning and implementation of a QIPP business case. Priorities include:

• rehabilitation and reablement
• preventive services designed to reduce further demand
• redesign of services to help prevent hospital admissions
• transition issues for children with disabilities
• learning disabilities and mental health residential placements. 

Training is intended to cater for multi-disciplinary teams of staff who need to work
collaboratively and make commissioning of integrated care happen. 

Contact: Patricia Barnett, Programme Consultant, Primary Care and PBC, NHS West Midlands, email:  patricia.barnett@westmidlands.nhs.uk;