Setting the Scene

Gerry PowerJOINT IMPROVEMENT TEAM

Christie Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services 2011

• “… Public Services are build around People and communities, their needs, aspirations, capacities and skills …”

• “… when empowered to direct their own support, families effectively combine state resources around their own natural supports to create truly personal support …”

CO-PRODUCTION

• Enabling People to influence their own health and wellbeing by contributing to the design, delivery and improvement of services … by harnessing the mutual strengths, capacities and potential of people, communities, organisations and sectors working in partnership to make better use of each others assets in order to achieve positive change.

Joint Improvement Team

A strategic improvement partnership between

Scottish Government, CoSLA, NHS Scotland,

the Third Sector, Independent Sector and

Housing Sector.

Supports local partnerships drive radical

improvements in how services are

redesigned and delivered for the people of

Scotland.

PRESENT

CO-PRODUCTION WITH PEOPLE AFFECTED BY DEMENTIA IN EAST

DUNBARTONSHIRE

PRESENT

• An initiative of East Dunbartonshire Council, Governance International and the Joint Improvement Team

• To Improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia

• Is co production possible with people who have dementia?

• Pilot project funded by Change Fund to explore this

Project AIMS

• To bring about culture change• Recognise and build on assets, strengths and

abilities of people affected by dementia (which includes carers, families and friends of people with dementia)

• To shift financial and human resources in public services towards more enabling ways of working with people affected by dementia

Project Aims

• Deliver co produced initiatives• Build a template for others to learn from our

experience for co production at a personal, community and organisational level

• International Dementia Co-production Exchange

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• Dementia can have a life-changing effect on people who are affected by it, as well as those who care for them

• Much can be done that makes a real difference

• People with dementia are the experts in their own lives

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Background• Demographics• Dementia Network• Funding PhD research on

resilience and dementia• Social Work Champion• Strong Network of Dementia

Ambassadors• Co production as the context

to deliver the pillars of support

What We Did

• National Advisory GroupAlzheimer’s ScotlandIRISS,The Social Value Lab Talking Mats

• An International Champions Network with public service professionals, academics and ‘experts by experience’ feeds good practice case studies, their own experiences and their views into the project

Co Production Star

• Process to deliver local workshops

• Connecting with people

• Building on existing assets

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• Connecting with people

• Who we invited

• Building on existing assets

• Identified opportunities

Issues

• Need to redesign services to support the increasing number of people affected by dementia

• Engaging and involving people with dementia and their families and carers as equal partners throughout their journey

• Nurturing dementia enabled and dementia friendly communities

Solutions

• Need to keep talking

• Co production cafes

• Continue to form innovative partnerships

Distinctive principles of coproduction

• Service users and staff are active contributors bringing together their skills and expertise

• Collaboration – ‘doing with’, not ‘doing to’• Achieving outcomes, not just delivering

services

BE PRESENT

• How Can You Benefit from PRESENT?• A toolkit for delivering co-production at a

personal, community and organisational levelContact us• Email: julie.christie@eastdunbarton.gov.ukpaula.brown@eastdunbarton.gov.ukgerry.power@scotland.gsi.gov.uk