Gearing up for Personal Health Budgets

Gearing up for Personal Health Budgets Third sector grant programme (Round 2)

Invitation to apply

We are pleased to invite invitations from third sector, voluntary and community sector organisations to apply:

 For an NHSE Grant: Gearing up for Personal Health Budgets. Please complete the accompanying application form

 To be a national or regional mentoring organisation. Please submit a proposal outlining how you will meet the criteria outlined below. Applications and proposals should be returned to [email protected] by 12 noon on Monday 1 December 2014. Background

Personal Health Budgets, If you are going to do it …do it right The personal health budget programme was launched by the Department of Health in 2009 and an independent evaluation was commissioned alongside the pilot programme. The Evaluation of the pilot programme showed that the benefits of personal health budgets depend on how they were introduced. For best results people should know the budget up front with advice and support available; choice and flexibility over how to spend budget, choice on how it is managed. To work well, personal health budgets need

 good support from all parts of the system

 co-production with people with direct experience

In April 2014 round one of the Gearing Up for personal health budgets invited third sector, community and voluntary sector organisations to bid to take part in a development programme to support them to offer advice and guidance to people (eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare) who wanted to find out more about personal health budgets. Thirty one organisations were awarded a place on the development programme, and a small grant. Three of these organisations acted in a mentoring capacity to the other organisations.

1 We would now like to invite organisations to bid for a second round with 40 places. In addition we would like to invite organisations to bid to offer mentoring support to the Gearing Up projects. We are looking for approximately 5 organisations to offer mentoring to local projects across a patch or region and one organisation to offer mentoring and development support to the programme nationally. Aim and Objectives of the Programme The Gearing Up programme has been set up to equip local third sector organisations with more knowledge and connections around personal health budgets so they can be ready to tell people about them as more people become interested. Twenty eight local voluntary support organisations, from across the country, have been given a place on the programme, which includes a small grant to give them capacity to take part. The programme will help ensure:

• That voluntary sector organisations are able to help people and families get good sense of what should be expected from the NHS, and equip them with the information and policy to help them get a personal health budget in line with established national best practice

• That, for a small number of people and where necessary, voluntary sector organisations can support eligible people to get a personal health budget, including offer some advocacy and mediation support where needed.

• That voluntary sector organisations work to develop productive relationships with CCGs and support them to introduce personal health budgets well.

• That voluntary sector organisations support the development of local partnerships. We have asked Gearing Up participants to get in touch with their local CCG personal health budget leads. Through the Gearing Up programme, the voluntary sector organisations will be well placed to provide support to individuals who are eligible for personal health budgets. This additional capacity is intended to support CCGs when introducing personal health budgets

Role of mentors Regional mentors: Gearing up organisations are being supported by regional mentoring organisations who help them to get started, share learning via a learning network and support them to work through challenges. Mentoring organisations will also contribute to the develop programme. National mentor: The Gearing Up programme and constituent organisations will be supported by an organisation which can offer development support, capacity and mentoring to NHSE in running the programme. This will involve contributing to a steering group, planning and contributing to the national develop support programme of events and resources.

2 Selection process for Gearing Up grants Applicants will be asked to complete an application to outline how they meet the criteria for selection. A panel will then meet to score applications.

Applications are welcome from across all of England however we would like to extend the geographical coverage of organisations funded so far. To this end we would welcome applications from:

London Midlands and North South East North London Bedfordshire North East England Berkshire West London Derbyshire Cumbria Cornwall Hertfordshire Gtr Manchester Dorset Lincolnshire Merseyside Hampshire Norfolk Kent Nottinghamshire Sussex Shropshire Surrey Staffordshire

Selection process for regional and national mentoring organisations

Organisations who would like to bid for a grant to be a regional mentoring organisation to the Gearing Up projects should submit a proposal (no more than 3 pages of A4) outlining how they meet the criteria outlined below. Please also include:

1. Information to confirm the status of your organisation e.g. whether you are a registered charity, community interest company etc. 2. Please provide a reference from a previous statutory funding organisation e.g. Local authority or NHS organisation. 3. Please provide a copy of your annual accounts for the last 12 months 4. Please provide contact details for your organisation including its registered name, main point of contact for this bid; postal address; email address; phone number and website if applicable.

Selection criteria for grants to Gearing Up organisations

Funding to the organisations to become involved in the programme will be awarded on the basis of:

1. Demonstration that they as an organisation are the natural place for people eligible for Continuing Health Care funding to turn to for help and information – for example these could be Disabled Peoples User Led Organisations, or voluntary sector organisations focussed around a ‘group’ or condition or a community interest company.

2. Understanding of self-directed support, personalisation in health and social care including its history and values base.

3 3. Demonstrate that they have the skills and capacity to offer information, advice and guidance to people interested in Personal Health Budgets. They have the capacity and flexibility to be able to offer advice and guidance to a wide range of people and be able to support the development of personal health budgets beyond NHS Continuing Health Care (to reflect the local CCG offer as they extend the availability of personal health budgets).

4. Track record of helpful support to and relationships with Clinical Commissioning Groups and Local Authorities. Experience of supporting the implementation of personalisation in health and social care at a local level.

5. Proposals for how they could support people, and ability to track this support to see if it enables people to get personal health budgets and better lives, and report this back so we know what the funding is achieving, and can learn from it.

6. Be linked into or have access to networks which connect with people who would benefit from, but are least likely to access personal health budgets.

In addition decisions will be made to ensure a good geographical spread. The organisations will be required to take part in the development programme; share learning and materials developed; report on progress, be involved with mentoring support opportunities. We would highly recommend that you talk to your local CCG before putting in your bid to understand their local offer around personal health budgets. Selection Criteria for regional Mentoring organisations

Funding to the mentoring organisations to become involved in the programme will be awarded on the basis of:

1 Demonstration of an established track record in offering information, advice and guidance to people eligible for Continuing Health Care funding who are interested in taken up a Personal Health Budget and other long term conditions.

2 Understanding of self-directed support, personalisation in health and social care including its history and values base.

3 Demonstrate that they have the skills and capacity to offer mentoring support to Gearing Up organisations.

4 Track record of helpful support to and relationships with Clinical Commissioning Groups and Local Authorities. Experience of supporting the implementation of personalisation in health and social care at a local level.

4 5 Proposals for how they could support Gearing Up organisations and people, and report this back so we know what the funding is achieving, and can learn from it.

Selection Criteria for a national Mentoring Organisation

Funding to the mentoring organisation to become involved in the programme will be awarded on the basis of:

1. In-depth understanding of Continuing Health Care funding and Personal Health Budgets and other long term conditions.

2 Understanding of self-directed support, personalisation in health and social care including its history and values base.

3 Demonstrate that they have the skills and capacity to offer development support, capacity and mentoring to NHSE in running the programme. Track record of development support health and social care/statutory organisations at a national level, particularly in relation to the implementation of Personal Health Budgets. Experience of supporting organisations to implement personalisation in health and social care at a local level.

4 Proposals for how they could support NHSE/Gearing Up organisations and people, and report this back so we know what the funding is achieving, and can learn from it.