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Joint Future is the lead policy on joint working between local authorities and the NHS in community care. It aims to provide faster access to better and more joined up services through improved joint working. It expects local partnerships to take holistic decisions on how they manage, finance and deliver community care services.
Joint Future is now focused on delivering better outcomes for people using community care services in line with the current national outcomes for community care.
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Supporting more people at home, as an alternative to residential and nursing care.
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Assisting people to lead independent lives through reducing inappropriate hospital admissions and enabling supported and faster discharges from hospital.
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Ensuring people receive an improved quality of care through faster access to services and better quality services.
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Ensuring better involvement and support of carers.
A new national outcomes framework is being developed and will focus our work on new national objectives.
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Improved health
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Improved well-being
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Improved independence
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Improved inclusion
Re-structuring within the Council’s community care services and the establishment of the Community Health Partnership, has allowed us to embed the work previously headlined as ‘Joint Future,’ into the work of our Joint Planning Groups.
We have re-designed many of our joint working structures, linking the Joint Future Core Group, more effectively to the Chief Officers Group, and our re-designed Joint Planning Groups. We have established a Joint Finance and Resources Group to ensure that our Joint Planning Groups have access to robust financial and resource information.
Our Joint Planning Groups are well placed to develop strategic plans for their service user groups, and to oversee the implementation of these. Planning Groups now have increased focus upon performance management and the delivery of integrated planning and services.
Membership of the Joint Planning Groups is shown on the right hand list.
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