Des McCart, Senior Programme Manager, des.mccart@nhs.scot
Gillian Fergusson, Senior Programme Manager, gillian.fergusson@nhs.scot
The Collaborative Communities team support the development of integrated health and social care approaches that are centred around communities.
The vision for collaboration alongside increasing flexibility already exists within the system, with emerging conversations around how to ‘change the ask and change the offer’. Shifting away from traditional models of service provision allows greater involvement of the third and independent sectors, along with exploring wider assets within communities.
The Collaborative Communities team are working in a number of areas to test different approaches. This includes:
- partnering with the National Development Team for Inclusion to support nine HSCPs in Scotland to implement and embed Community Led Support
- supporting HSCPs to develop collaborative commissioning practices with the third and independent sectors
- working with a range of community organisations to develop new, flexible models of care and support
- exploring pathways for delivering services and support for carers to promote the implementation of the Carers Act.
Within this we:
- provide guidance/coaching on developing outcome-based and collaborative commissioning practices
- highlight innovative models of practice
- provide independent facilitation of local events
- create connections between those working on common issues
- are a critical friend and offer expert advice to HSCPs in development of outcome-based commissioning framework specifications.
