Equipping leaders to build relationships that transform our healthcare system

Transforming Healthcare Together: Equipping leaders to build relationships that transform our healthcare system
Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR)

• Free support (resources, webinars, coaching, Practice Development Network) for health, care and VCSE leaders who want to drive action through partnership working.

NHS financial sustainability

NHS financial sustainability
National Audit Office 18 January 2019

• This report 
• summarises the financial position of NHS England, CCGs and trusts 2017/18
• examines the financial flows and incentives in the NHS and whether these encourage long-term financial sustainability
• examines how local partnerships of health and care organisations are progressing, and what the Department of Health & Social Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement are doing to support them 

Report conclusions:

Using Community Partnerships to Integrate Health and Social Services for High-Need, High-Cost Patients

Using Community Partnerships to Integrate Health and Social Services for High-Need, High-Cost Patients
Commonwealth Fund 5 January 2018

• This report profiles and classifies 301 US cross-sector community partnerships in order to understand common experiences and challenges.

Partnering for Improvement - inter-organisational developments in the NHS

Partnering for Improvement: inter-organisational developments in the NHS
Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, 6 September 2017

• This research explored the expectations and realities of partnering across different spectrums - individual, mandated, structural and voluntary partnering - and identifies a number of key learning points.
• The report presents a range of implications of relevance to all those with an interest in pursuing partnering - NHS providers, policymakers and regulators.

Fostering hospital-community partnerships

A playbook for fostering hospital-community partnerships to build a culture of health
Health Research & Educational Trust, .American Hospital Association (AHA) July 2017

• This guidance outlines a range of methods, tools and strategies to help create and sustain partnerships between hospitals and communities in order to create a culture of health. 
• The guidance also uses insights from cohorts of a pilot programme on how to manage, strengthen and accelerate collaborations effectively

Patients as partners: Building collaborative relationships

Patients as partners: Building collaborative relationships among professionals, patients, carers and communities
Kings Fund 4 July 2016

• A guide to building collaborative relationships among health and care professionals, patients, service users, carers and communities.
• The guide suggests five approaches to developing an effective relationship:
• find your collaborative partner: this, together with identifying funding and a real task to work on, marks the first important stage of beginning a collaborative relationship
• invest in developing leadership and collaborative relationships
• make time for learning: set aside time for reflection, record learning and share that learning with peers and those you hope to influence
• go where the energy is: sometimes this means working under the radar for a while until you are ready to share your results, your approach and your learning 
• embed collaborative activity at all levels in your system or organisation.

A practical guide to cross sector partnerships

The power of partnership - how to seize the potential
Sodexo, November 2013

• One of a partnerships report series, which explores how providers from the private and third sector can best work with the NHS.
• A practical guide to forming and maintaining cross-sector partnerships in healthcare looking at three phases of the partnership process: getting started, procurement and delivery.

Health hubs across communities

Enhancing Access Through Integration - How small, rural and northern hospitals are innovating partnerships
and building health hubs
Ontario Hospital Association, 2013

• These 19 success stories highlight the innovative work taking place at small hospitals to improve access and quality of care. These hospitals, in collaboration with their health care partners, have accomplished this by implementing local health hubs to better serve their communities’ health care needs. 
• Many of these communities have begun adopting this model in order to better link care across the continuum, namely acute care, primary care, long-term care and other community-based services such as mental health and addictions services.

Pratical guide to partnership working in the NHS

Partnership: how to seize the potential A practical guide to forming and maintaining cross-sector partnerships in healthcare
Sodexo, November 2013

• This report aims to promote the use of partnership arrangements and to offer practical advice and useful case studies of partnership working
• The focus is on cross-sector partnerships designed to deliver clinical and other services for the NHS
• It is aimed both at boards considering and overseeing partnerships, and managers responsible for procuring and managing them

Strengthening relations between the NHS and voluntary sector

Working together to deliver the Mandate: Strengthening partnerships between the NHS and the voluntary sector
Kings Fund,1 July 2013

• This report, commissioned by the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) and the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), pulls together a wide range of innovative partnerships and projects between health trusts and voluntary sector providers across the country to consider how the barriers to effective partnership working can be overcome.
• Key findings
• Strategic leadership within local partner organisations will be vital to creating a supportive, enabling culture and to removing the barriers (real or perceived) to partnership working. But there is also a need for a national dialogue about how to develop new and innovative models of care.
• Locally led partnerships offer the opportunity to reduce fragmentation, drive efficiencies and deliver cost savings, and improve the patient experience. To work effectively together, trusts and voluntary sector providers need to establish clear roles and responsibilities, develop new skills to support a range of partnership models and governance structures, share risks and rewards, and develop business skills that can help deliver shared aims and improved outcomes.

Essential commissioning guidance launched on working with local communities

Working with Communities, Developing Communities 
RCGP Centre for Commissioning , 2 April 2013

• This guide puts forward both a financial case and health case as to why investing resources in Community Development is beneficial for local populations, primary care practitioners and CCGs.
• "Local populations must be seen as assets, not burdens, in order to make CCGs strong and successful."
• The report focuses on the need for CCGs to work together and build partnerships within their communities between health, education, housing and other services including policing.

Health responsibilities within Community Safety Partnerships

Community safety partnerships: a guide for clinical commissioning groups
LGA, 22 March 2013

• Community safety partnerships (CSPs) are a statutory partnership of organisations who work together to create strategies and practical interventions to reduce crime and disorder in their local area.
• From April 2013 CCGs will be required to be members of these partnerships
• This guide explains the legislative implications for CCGs, what this entails for those involved, and how CCGs can best work together with other agencies for mutual benefit to prevent crime and disorder in their area. Case studies showing practical examples of successful partnership working have also been included to illustrate the impact CSPs can have for local communities.