NWJIP

The NWJIP Choice and Control programme works across adult social care and health, sharing learning from the implementation of personalised approaches across both sectors.

In addition, the programme connects beyond statutory services and into the independent and voluntary sectors as well as working directly with disabled people and their families and supporters to influence the local delivery of policy. 

You can find news and information about all aspects of Choice and Control along with regional case studies at the Putting People First website. 

The Making the Strategic Shift programme works collaboratively across the NWJIP within the Early Intervention and Prevention programme.

Our key aim is to support authorities in the region to achieve a 'strategic shift' towards prevention by providing information and support to our stakeholders.  

The Commissioning Programme focuses on adult health and social care but we also recognise the place of wider local authority and other commissioning interest and skills.

The Programme provides support to the field in developing and consolidating commissioning knowledge and skills. We undertake this jointly between the NHS and Adult Social Care and have been developing links with children's services, housing and supported people programmes as well as the wider family of local government. Links with providers are of increasing importance.

Putting People First has been a key driver for the Commissioning Programme.

Delivery of the transformation of adult social care as set out in Putting People First demands a skilled and flexible workforce. 

Leadership and workforce issues cross cut national policy, cultural, system and organisational change within adult health and social care. The NWJIP leadership and workforce work stream impacts on and links with all other NWJIP  workstreams.  

The work streams within this programme aim to provide a regional response to current national policy drivers specifically, Putting People First. 

The remit of work streams is wide ranging and addresses regional and national  priority areas including ensuring dignity in care services, improving outcomes for people with Learning disabilities and autism and implementation of  The National Dementia Strategy and the National Carers Strategy .

Much of the activity within this programme cross cuts with other work streams within the NWJIP portfolio, particularly Making the Strategic Shift  programme.

There is a high standard of health and social care provision in the North West with all centres providing a good or excellent service. 

This focus raise the bar higher in its aim to  further improve  standards. Knowledge Management is the regional platform for the  collection, organisation and sharing of knowledge relevant to all programmes and workstreams. Safeguarding works with local authorities and other partners to disseminate information on the care of vulnerable adults, while  workstreams Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards supports local authorities and other partners meet their  local statuory responsibilities. 

The Key Interfaces programme as set out in the NWJIP One Plan 2010/11 shows the key areas of connection and linkage the NWJIP programmes and work streams make from within their own programme activity to national policy areas of activity such as health inequalities and mental health.

This interface between NWJIP activity and national priority areas leads to greater alignment of regional and national activity and reduces the likelihood of duplication of activity.

The One Plan 2010/11 shows where the NWJIP key interfaces sit for the coming year. The yellow boxes show where governance for each key interface area sits. While the green arrows shown on the One Plan show the alignment between NWJIP programmes and work streams and the national policy areas highlighted in the Key Interfaces column.