Partnerships and funding for sustainability and performance

At our monthly webinar for February, the topic of discussion will focus on 'Partnerships and funding for sustainability and performance'.

Increasingly, public bodies deliver their services through partnerships—but are these as effective as they could be? NHS Trusts, ICBs and local authorities need to look hard at how they work with others because better performance through sustainable partnerships is within their reach. This webinar showcases how this can be done.

Many NHS and local authority services are provided through community interest companies and other third-sector providers. Where this works, significant steps forward can be taken, and as an example of real progress for system performance, secretary of state Rt. Hon. Wes Streeting recently highlighted the step-change in A+E waits in his own constituency, where the GP out-of-hours provider Partnership of East London Cooperatives (PELC) has been the catalyst of that change. But this was as a result of a thoughtful intervention by the local ICB and changing the funding approach to PELC as well as PELC’s own excellent clinical and managerial leadership.

In mental health and social care Making Space, a larger national provider with headquarters in Warrington and holding multiple contracts, we have the example of a reliable witness to many different funding and partnership approaches, ranging from the very transactional through to much more joined-up and strategic arrangements. Again, the results speak for themselves.

At this webinar we will have case studies from both PELC and Making Space to identify both the issue and solutions against the national challenge of improving performance in financially challenging times and making sure that plurality in services remains sustainable and that patients and communities can continue to benefit from the types of agile services that only the third sector and community interest companies can provide.

Guiding us through this discussion will be Steve Rubery, Chief Executive, Partnership of East London Co-operatives (PELC) and Rachel Peacock, Chief Executive, Making Space. Our chief executive, Professor Andrew Corbett-Nolan, puts forward the challenge to NHS and local authority colleagues and describes what GGI believes is the ‘secret sauce’ for effective partnerships.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact events@good-governance.org.uk.