adult social care

Improvement East, along with the Department of Health, supports the Joint Improvement Partnership (JIP) to work across the East of England to improve adult social care. The JIP involves the eleven Directors of Adult Social Care in the region to work in an integrated way with the programme boards of the Strategic Health Authority to maximise its impact across the region, it aims to:

• Coordinate, challenge, support and accelerate the drive for transformation of adult social care
• Work in ways which deliver personalised support that is excellent value for money, of the best quality and more effectively delivered
• Provide support in partnership with wider local government, health services and people who use services and their carers

The JIP sits under the aegis of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) and is accountable to the parent bodies of the key partners.  It is chaired by the regional ADASS chair, currently Harold Bodmer, Norfolk and different Adult Social Care Directors across the region are leading the JIP work streams for the region. The work streams for 2009-2010 are:

• Transforming Adult Social Care (Putting People First)
• Long Term Conditions
• Dementia
• Organisational Performance and Comprehensive Area Assessment
• Local Strategic Partnerships and Local Area Agreements
• Learning Difficulties Services
• Capacity and skills
• Adult Safeguarding
• Cross-Cutting work
• Efficiency
• Mental health
• Carers
• Housing
• Continuing care

The JIP in the East of England is also building their website and this will act as a focus for understanding the JIP across the region and a place to find out about events and activities. A link to that website will appear here when available.

Improvement East supported various workstreams in 2008/09 which included a Personalisation workstream. The final report and summary are available here:

» Space East: getting personal
» Space East: getting personal summary

The JIP Programme Manager is;

Dr Pauline Lane
pauline.lane@easterndc.org.uk
01206 287585