Ageing Well Programme reporting
The national Ageing Well programme aimed to promote healthier ageing and address inequalities. The plan included three key policy areas:
- Urgent Community Response – increase the capacity of intermediate care services to deliver a 2-hour response to those in crisis at home and 2-day response for those needing rehabilitation to avoid or following a hospital admission
- The Anticipatory Care model – implement a proactive population health approach for people with complex needs
- Enhanced Health in Care Homes – roll out a tested approach to improve the provision and quality of NHS healthcare across all care home beds.
In Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) there was also a focus on providing dementia support and in 2021-2022 the BNSSG Ageing Well programme funded 17 projects. These projects covered a variety of areas, ranging from a secondary care clinician led advanced care planning project, to Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise sector (VCSE) led specialise dementia support for specific ethnic minority communities.
Our impact
Our Clinical Effectiveness Team supported the BNSSG Ageing Well programme work in 2022 after projects had been selected and funds committed. The team was involved in:
- Consulting with the six locality partnerships colleagues and project leads to develop a reporting template for all projects to report on the first year’s activity and initial outcomes.
- Providing guidance and drop-in sessions to project leads around completing reporting templates.
- Engaging with the University of West of England public health team (already involved in the evaluation of several projects) to support drop-in sessions for project leads. In 2023 we have also been able to link this team to other Ageing Well work in North West Bristol Locality Partnership.
- Attending regular Monitoring and Oversight meetings with Ageing Well programme leads and locality partnership leads to provide advice and support.
- Supporting Business Intelligence colleagues to provide advice and analysis around activity and outcome measures.
Despite the challenge of working with different providers and types of projects, reporting templates were used to provide quality feedback to the Integrated Care Board and Locality Partnerships. These reports have been well received providing transparency around how Ageing Well funds were utilised, documenting progress to date, and supporting next steps around system and locality partnership planning.