NEW Barony Workshop:
"Developing your Local Joint Commissioning Strategy in Scotland"

Venue: Edinburgh – Marriott South Gyle
Monday 28th May, 2012

This workshop sets out to learn from successful integration and commissioning experience in the UK. Many Councils and Health Boards have formed integration groups but see commissioning narrowly about contracting rules and have not considered key strategic issues such as who should hold the budget?

As commissioning will be the key to integration success, we are presenting a workshop which will provide the motivation, knowledge and confidence to develop further.

Prof Jon Glasby at Birmingham University has written asking where the infrastructure is to make commissioning a success and questions whether it is being set up to fail? We will also examine a range of supporting issues which have to be addressed to embed successful commissioning.

With Audit Scotland’s recent report on Commissioning Social care, it was recommended that Councils with NHS boards and other relevant commissioning partners should develop commissioning strategies. The Scottish Government has advised authorities and health boards to develop joint commissioning strategies.

This workshop describes what steps commissioners require to be taking and how to do it. It also includes considerable time for dealing with questions and audience participation. It will complement and reinforce the work being done by the JIT by providing a differing set of successful integration experiences.

We will explain the terms of Commissioning Strategy where ‘what to acquire’ differs from ‘how to acquire’ and enables redesign of inhouse and third sector partnerships to improve outcomes for citizens. Delegates will also take part in a number of exercises which will help them to reinforce learning.