Integration Consultation
Consultation on the integration of services between Staffordshire County Council and the proposed Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust
Evaluation Report
Across all partners in Staffordshire, we share the same drive to maintain and improve the health and wellbeing of Staffordshire people. Pivotal to this is ensuring the public’s voice is stronger than ever before in designing the way services are delivered. It is with this in mind that our thanks go to all of you who gave your views on the consultation about the integration of services between Staffordshire County Council and the proposed Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust (now established).
Your views have proved invaluable and have very much helped shape our approach to the proposed integration. It was especially useful to hear first hand from those who attended one of the public events that took place across the county. Many of the themes you raised as part of the consultation have been naturally the same areas that we have already been considering as part of this work, which is obviously good news.
One of the drivers for integration is to provide a much better service for the people of Staffordshire. With a major project like this, an extensive amount of work has been underway to identify all the benefits that joining together health and social care could bring as well as looking at key factors such as costs and savings.
A full business case has been finalised and will go to the Partnership Trust Board for consideration on 15th December 2011 and to Staffordshire’s County Council’s Cabinet on 21st December 2011. They will then decide locally around whether the integration between health and social care will go ahead. The proposal will also be subject to consideration by a national Transactions Panel in January 2012.
Here is the report summarising the responses to the consultation and answering some questions raised| (573Kb).
We will continue to keep you informed on progress about the proposed integration via our usual communication channels.
Matthew Ellis
Cabinet Member for Adults' Wellbeing
Staffordshire County Council
Stuart Poyner
Chief Executive Officer
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust
Graham Urwin
Chief Executive Officer
Staffordshire Cluster
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