NHS North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus - Yorkshire & Humber SHA

Key focus/scope

The NELCTP pilot sets out to trial personalised planning in a variety of settings, including complex case management, primary care, community care, and continuing health care, using the Care Trust integration to explore how joint health and care personal budgets may work.

The pilot is focusing on people with continuing health care needs, and people with forms of dementia, and their carers.

Personalised planning will include community staff and practices within a commissioning group in North East Lincolnshire. The development of integrated budgets is primarily with the area's mental health provider.

Overview of pilot and its purpose

NHS NELCTP has the responsibilities of a PCT organisation and discharges those of a local authority for adult social care. The pilot builds on the successful implementation of self directed support in social care, seeking to improve and enable new ways for people to increase control of their health.

The pilot is working with people who qualify for continuing health care, seeking to develop personalised planning as the norm, identifying costs of care, enabling different models of flexibility, and giving up to 20 people direct payments. The pilot also aims to enable people with dementia on joint funded packages to benefit from flexibilities and direct payments in meeting their health outcomes. Locally, the pilot is monitoring clinical and wellbeing outcomes, staff issues, financial efficiencies and risks, clinical risks, and commissioning choices of budget holders.

Objectives of pilot

The pilot aims to:

• develop and implement personalised planning across a range of areas
• develop a streamlined system for direct payments, sharing aspects as used for social care direct payments
• improve and understand costs and resource around an individual's care
• develop and implement a range of options for people to manage resources
• enable smooth transition from/between social care and health direct payments
• learn through doing, in partnership with people and carers
• enable better informed citizens to take control of their health care.

This information has been provided by NHS North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus.