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Northamptonshire Carers Strategy Demonstrator Site
Sharon Benford, Project Manager
Better NHS Support for Carers
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What the presentation will cover
• Context
• Main aim of carers strategy demonstrator site
• Achievements against the 7 main elements of the Northamptonshire site
• Challenges and opportunities
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Context
• Northamptonshire has a population of 685,000 (2008 estimates)
• Southern part of East Midlands
• Estimated 60,000 adult carers and 17,000 young carers
• Strong carer partnerships support the project
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Main aims of national Carers Strategy Demonstrator Site programme
• Learning about what works and what doesn’t work to support carers
• Three strands to the national programme:
• Better NHS Support for Carers
• Breaks for Carers
• Carers health checks
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Elements of the Northamptonshire carers strategy demonstrator site
7 elements
Social Enterprise
Primary Care Training and
Development
Primary Care
CASW Team
EvaluationInformation Campaign
Carers Joint
Commissioning
Carers Personal Health Budget
Pilot
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1.Primary Care Carer Assessment Support Worker Team
• Aim: Carer identification, assessment and support; awareness raising, training and development of practice teams
• 6.6wte Carer Assessment Support Workers (CASW’s) managed by 3rd Sector
• Rolled out an existing CASW model into primary care for the first time
• 23 GP practices signed up to the pilot
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2. Social Enterprise
• Aim: To provide start up costs for a Carer-led Social Enterprise
• Contract awarded to Northamptonshire Carers• Services aim to deliver a number of micro social
enterprise projects that are low cost in terms of set up but provide good outcomes for carers
• Work in progress: • holiday provision for carers• engagement and involvement opportunities• Carers Cafés
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3. Carers personal health budget pilot
• Aim: to pilot Carers personal health budget alongside GP commissioning consortia led national pilot
• National pilot cohort group includes continuing health care, mental health and stroke
• Carers personal health budget incorporated into this as part of the demonstrator site – going live in October
• Piloting 20 Carers (randomly allocated to receive a budget or to a control group) targeting:• Carers with specific health needs identified by
CASW’s• Carers with health needs who want to continue in
caring role but may be prevented by health needs
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4. Primary Care training and development via CASW Team
• Baseline survey of carer-related activity in GP practices completed
• Carer leads identified in 23 pilot practices• Practice action plans developed based on gaps identified• Presentations provided to team meetings/training packs
developed • Implementation of action plans• Additional awareness training via Carers UK - Nov/Dec• Information campaign targeting professionals – Mid Sept
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5. Information campaign
• Carer focus groups to inform development
• Carer leaflets and posters
• Professional leaflets
• Media campaign starting mid Sept
• Web page
• Carers Award
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Carer Resources
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6. Carers joint commissioning
• Joint Carers commissioning process between local authority and PCT
• Provides services that support carers identified via the demonstrator site
• Provides commissioning support for new services developed directly by the demonstrator site
• Provides structure for succession planning beyond the demonstrator site
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7. Evaluation• National evaluation in partnership with Leeds
University• Local evaluation in partnership with local
university and business school• Carers baseline survey complete • GP baseline survey complete • Carer follow up survey (following receipt of
services) to commence from October – to generate Return on Investment data
• Informal evaluation and reflective diaries
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The future – beyond the Carers Strategy Demonstrator Site ?
• Taking evidence for best practice forward into commissioning for carers
• Organisational change - opportunities and threats
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Thank you for listening.Any questions?