Ms Carole Bell This is Me

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   Published on: 7/15/2007   Last Visited: 7/15/2007

   Carole Bell, Assistant Director , Commissioning, Performance and Partnership, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

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   Published on: 3/13/2007   Last Visited: 3/13/2007

   Carole Bell Head of Commissioning, The Children"s Trust, Hammersmith and Fulham

3. 3. EHJ Archive - September 2000

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   "People have been asking for years why they couldn't pool funds to work together," points out Carole Bell, policy manager at the Joint Unit at the Department of Health, "well, now they can."
   
   Although take up has been slow so far - to date there are just 24 partnerships based on the Health Act criteria - Carole is enthusiastic about the future. "We knew authorities didn't want a complicated application process so all we have is a simple notification process, and because the framework is so expansive, people are applying it in ways we hadn't even dreamed of," she says. "Basically what these powers offer is very straightforward, but in a way that was never possible before." The majority of interest and examples so far have been based around health and social care - particularly in providing joined-up care packages for the elderly and disabled, who tend to have to deal with a multitude of different authorities, officers and budgets otherwise. But Carole has plenty of ideas for environmental health departments looking for partnership situations, and is very keen to see greater involvement on the preventive health side. "If traffic accidents are pushing up accident and emergency bills at the local hospitals, maybe the health authority would like to club together with the local council for marked out cycle paths, or safe routes to school," she suggests.
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   Pooled funds: "Pooled funds are more about the way that organisations can make their budgets more effective," says Carole.
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   "Ministers are keen to see them used and be effective in producing better services," agrees Carole. "This has been a very joined-up document at their level too - endorsed by DoH, DETR and DfEE." The partnerships are unusually democratic arrangements, as one of the conditions is consultation with appropriate stakeholders. "We're re-empowering local people," explains Carole. "The real emphasis is on better services for people and improved outcomes." The department's main aim now, is to encourage people to use the opportunities in every possible way. "A partnership can come from virtually any starting point and develop into something," she says.