Our information (Involvement reports & presentations)
Below are original research findings and recommendations which clients have permitted us to put into the public domain, or other presentations / reports published by M-A-C.
M-A-C Briefing Paper on New Business Structures in Health and Social Care (Adobe PDF, April 2006)
M-A-C has caught the moment with its briefing paper for health and social care commissioners on the implications
of new business structures emerging across these sectors. This encompasses social enterprises as well as private companies.
The Guardian recently profiled ELIC – East London Integrated Care and the Health Service Journal this week featured
Central Surrey Health. We discuss both these initiatives in our briefing, setting them in the wider context of
governance forms and service delivery models.
We will keep this briefing updated as a downloadable resource which we hope will be of particular relevance to PCT and practice-based commissioners as well as commissioners of social care services.
We invite comments about the whole area of public service commissioning and service delivery through new business forms.
Involving the Public: Can it work? (Adobe PDF, December 2004)
Slides and notes from a NHS Alliance/M-A-C workshop earlier this year attended by chairs and chief executives of PCTs and chairs of PECs.
Laying the Foundations for Governors in Hackney (Adobe PDF, December 2004)
We believe Foundation Trust Governors have the potential to be the best thing to come out of the radical shift towards community
control of health resources which has produced the first wave of Foundation Trusts. Time will tell, of course, but
our experiences at the Homerton Hospital in east London convinced us that this diverse group of elected and nominated people will make a difference.
A Framework for Evaluating Patient Participation Groups in Wandsworth's Primary Care Practices (Adobe PDF, October 2004)
I have found very little in the literature on evaluating local patient participation initiatives. I have put together this framework for evaluating a local patient participation initiative based on the experience we have had with different initiatives locally and nationally. I do not suggest that patient participation groups are a panacea, but at least in this local instance it is clear to me that having a group makes a difference to the participants and to the practice. Funding is the continuing threat to the principles of continuity and commitment that are vital to long term, sustained success (see Appendix 4).
Patients and Staff Working for Mutual Benefit (September 2004)
The Balham Park Surgery Liaison Group (BPSLG) was formed in September 1999 out of regular activities initiated by the surgery's Practice Manager. BPSLG now has more than 300 members, and meet regularly to discuss ideas, comments and concerns with the Surgery doctors and staff.
We are not a "patients only" group: BPSLG's rationale is to work with its practice for mutual benefit.
Your Starter For Ten - Patient and Public Involvement Guidance for new Forum Members and Managers (Adobe PDF, May 2004)
Information on what it takes to create successful participation in Patients' Forums
Developing Members and Governors (Adobe PDF, February 2004)
A presentation given by Andrew to the Governance :Leads of the Wave 1 Foundation Hospitals. We draw on our experience of public participation to give some ideas and examples of how public involvement can be developed and sustained and what needs Governance Leads must bear in mind when creating successful participation processes and structures.