TASK

NHS England Directorate for Patient and Public Voice – National Programme ‘Patients in Control’ NHS England published national guidance for all NHS Commissioners entitled ‘Transforming Participation in Health and Care’ in September 2014. Following which a funding opportunity was offered to all Commissioning Support Units to submit bids for funding for 2 separate elements of the guidance – ‘individual’ and ‘collective’ participation. Hilda Yarker and Helen Kavanagh were successful in being awarded significant funding to deliver the ‘individual’ element of the programme, across the north of England to 68 CCGs and 9 Area Teams.

OUTCOME

• Identification of innovation in digital engagement technologies to support patients to self-manage their long term conditions.
• Publication of ‘How to engage people in their own health and care’.
• Development of a Personalisation Plan for a CCG in the North West.
• Extensive engagement across a wide variety of communities in the north of England.
• 6 major events held across the north of England.