in one place mark gardner chief executive melin homes care & repair cymru conference 2015
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In One PlaceMark Gardner
Chief ExecutiveMelin Homes
Care & Repair Cymru Conference 2015
Collaboration considerations
Engaging with health• Internal financial pressures are immense• Are you after money? – there isn’t any (spare)• Huge organisational and cultural change
underway• In the political spotlight – risk averse?• What’s our offer?
What does the NHS in Wales look like?• 7 Health Boards• 3 NHS Trusts• 91,000 people employed• £6bn per year• 22m patient ‘contacts’ each year• 1m A&E cases each year• 54m items prescribed each year• It’s BIG business!
In One Place
• A new model of collaboration• Journey time – two and a half years• Supported by 1 health board; 5 Local
Authorities; and 8 housing associations• We’re up and running!
Context and focus• Continuing Health Care (CHC)• Procurement of all inclusive packages of accommodation, care and
support often ‘out of county’• Health Board having to save £1m per week• Public service funding cut backs = recipe for argument = who pays?• Capital funding scarce – too much for one organisation to take on• Commissioning versus innovative procurement routes• Lots of good projects – why never a programme?
Sense of urgency• £200K per person per year = all inclusive (CHC) cost• Supervision of quality of care• 4 urgent cases• 24 out of county placements• 78 people designated as CHC• 29 younger people coming through the ‘system’
What’s in it for me?• Accommodation only savings per year - £34,000 for 4 cases• Add care and support savings = £285,000• x 4 = c£300,000• x 24 = £1.8m• x 78 = £5.8m• Logical process that aligns planning processes and makes
best use of skills, resources and expertise
What we’re learning/delivering• Every tenancy saves NHS a minimum of £50,000 per
year (recurring)• Increasing capacity in the local care provider sector• 33 projects across the region = £1.65m recurring
savings per year• In One Place team key to success• Collaboration is really tough!
Why has it worked?• There was a focus and sense of urgency• Partners accepted the context and there was real purpose• A win-win-win opportunity existed• Partners recognised that – and went for it• We talked – and then did something about it• The model is new and therefore different and therefore
can be a programme not a project
Lessons and challenges• Understand the rules by which others have to play• Understand the constraints they are bound by (political, regulatory,
financial)• Accept that some things can’t be budged! (but try to work around
them)• Why should others work with you? (relationships are everything)• Will real benefits be delivered (keep coming back to this)• Projects versus Programmes
Good things happen when we get collaboration right
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