Thank you all who participated in this meeting, held on the 14th May in the Village Street Health Centre in Derby; this mail is to summarise what we discussed and decided.
Evaluation
We very quickly built up a long list of measures at various levels of generality. Nene Ankrah has the detailed notes and he will review them and come up with a set of recommended measures that we can agree and follow through.
The tone around the room was that we have the balance about right; we have included within our proposal a number of ways in which we will capture “stories” and qualitative information, it is our practice to value these, and we will complement them with a small number of “hard” or quantitative measures.
As a start to this Martin Wells video recorded the introductions and summaries of the meeting. These are available on YouTube (just in case you thought it was only for youngsters) and are available elsewhere on this blog.
Sinfin
John Topham and Gill Collinson described a situation that they acknowledge is typical and at the heart of this project: the proposal for the Sinfin ‘lifestyle service’ has been written and is heading into the commissioning process but contains little or no firsthand information from the people of Sinfin.
We reiterated the importance of this project to the Derby City PCT 10 year strategy and also acknowledged the needs for better engagement, the desire for this to be seen to be a ‘local initiative’ and also how any service could develop into a social enterprise.
The timing of the project is complex – the commissioning process is lengthy and needs to start; this project will operate in parallel to that as much as possible, informing the commissioners and service specification and working with whatever style of procurement that emerges.
The Organisational Development perspective was that this is a great way to explore what it takes for the PCT to get behind this type of project and to keep on doing that; to make the type of engagement we envisage ‘normal’.
Normanton
Although the core issue in this project is engagement with the Roma, this is taken to be indicative of the way in which the PCT needs to operate with each community or group with which it must relate and enter into dialogue. It is clear there are a lot of anxieties centred on this ethnic group, some of which are likely to be the result of a lack of understanding.
A new director of performance and knowledge management has been hired; it is important we work alongside this function so that the understandings we produce are usable within and beyond the PCT.
We reiterated the value of using this project to position the PCT as ‘health leaders’, and to work with other agencies similarly interested in community dialogue (for example, Lincs PCT have expressed interest). The organisational development work will raise the issue of how Derby City creates and maintains its relationships with other agencies, although in the time we have together we’re likely only to start this discussion.
Other issues
The first meeting of the steering group of this project has been arranged for 28th May.
The next meeting of the EM Development Group (of which this project is a part) is tentatively scheduled for the 2nd June, this is being arranged by the SHA’s office of the PCTs.
Gill raised governance issues for this project; Rachel Gibson will be responsible for submitting monthly reports to the Office of the PCTs, these will include the project burn rate and progress towards goals.
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