Norfolk County Council, together with the county’s two PCTs, on July 30th launched a unique and radical commissioning strategy to take forward the personalisation agenda for health and social care.
Norfolk have gone further than what traditionally passes as ‘participation’ by from the onset having the Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People (NCODP) take the lead role in devising the commissioning strategy in partnership with Norfolk Adult Social Services, Norfolk NHS and NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney.
Personalisation calls for a completely new commissioning framework, one that allows social and health care services to be fitted around individuals’ needs rather than fitting those needs, as is done now, around a structure of predetermined services. In short, in the new personalised world service users will be the ultimate commissioners. The Norfolk commissioning strategy seeks to accommodate this by establishing a set of strong principles - including a social model understanding of disability and a firm grounding in human rights.
Follow the event, Bill Albert gave an interview to Radio Norfolk's Matthew Gudgin for his drive time show on Thursday 30th.
Further details, including the Press Release and documentation for the Research and Joint Commissioning Strategy can be found at http://www.ncodp.org.uk/about-us/consultancies/commissioning-strategy