Health and Wellbeing in Derby

Derek Ward

Joint Director of Public Health

Current System New System

Context

• Government PH white paper November 2010• Consultation period• The ‘pause’ – NHS Futures Forum• Publication of ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People:

Update and way forward’ – policy statement regarding PH system reform, July 14th 2011

Key points• Tier 1 local authorities will have a role

across all three domains of public health: – health improvement; – health protection; – health service public health

• Local authorities will have a mandated responsibility to provide public health expertise, advice and analysis to NHS commissioning bodies.

Key points• Director of Public Health expected to be of

Chief Officer status and be directly accountable to the Chief Executive

• The Health and Wellbeing Board to bring the whole system together at the local level and set the local framework for commissioning of health care, social care and public health.

New LA commissioning responsibilities

• appropriate access to sexual health services • plans to protect the health of the population • ensure NHS commissioners receive the public

health advice they need • the National Child Health Measurement

Programme • NHS Health Check Assessment • elements of the Healthy Child Programme.

Funding

The public health budget will:• Be distributed to local authorities • Used by the NHS Commissioning Board to

commission PH programmes nationally• form the budget of Public Health England.

What next?

• Public Health Outcomes Framework

• Public Health England Operating Model

• Public health funding

• Public Health in local government and the Director of Public Health

• Workforce.

Public Health System Updates including:

Timescales for changeDate ChangeAutumn 2011 Publication of a series of Public Health Reform

Updates March 2012 Formal transition plans to be agreed

Shadow budget allocations to LAs for 2012/13 April 2012 Chief Executive of Public Health England in

post

April 2013 LAs take on public health responsibilities Establishment of Public Health England

2013/14 Public health grants made to LAs

In Derby

• Health and Wellbeing Board in shadow form

• Work commissioned re Citizen voice and 3rd sector role in HWB

• Reporting back in November• Commissioning brings lots of

opportunity

Challenges and Opportunities

• Completely new system – including for the 3rd Sector

• No roadmap!

• Majority of NHS money (circa £80bn) held by CCGs and NHSCB – Compact compliant?

• Loss of relationships and people

• But real opportunities strategically through HWB and operationally through delivery