The Long Term Conditions (LTC) Community
West Midlands Region
Jon Whiting - West Midlands Regional Lead
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I am the West Midlands regional lead for the LTC Programme. I come from a social services background and originally trained as a social worker and worked in Birmingham, Leicestershire and Warwickshire for 32 years in a variety of mainly management and development roles, with a special responsibility for older people's services.
I worked extensively in partnership with health, local government and third sector colleagues to develop a number of services, including reablement, Single Assessment and telecare
I have been with the LTC Programme since January. I work closely with the SHA and social care to support PCTs, social care and the third sector to develop person-centred services for people with long term conditions.
I am committed to a whole systems approach, developing integrated services and service user involvement.
West Midlands Regional Updates:
July 2010:
Self Care/ Self management: convened regional network meetings, the most recent on 8th June. Issues covered include: metrics; engagement with the voluntary sector; strategy development; training; developing local business cases. Next meeting 16th August – Roger Halliday (DH) attending.
Worcestershire: facilitated workshop on ABI 27th May, with follow-up half day 15th June. Member of the editorial team for the final report of the Review Programme for neurological conditions in Worcs.
Birmingham: The Birmingham Health and Well Being Partnership has set up a Joint Commissioning Group (JCG) for People with a Physical Disability and Long Term Conditions. The JCG is seeking to sponsor a project that develops partnerships with Third Sector with an initial focus on neurological conditions. Recently joined the JCG and am member of Task and Finish group which is developing a proposal for taking this work forward. Engaged with regional VOWNnet group who are keen to use the Quality Neurology tool to assist with the benchmarking and gap analysis.
Dudley: member of the Neurological Conditions Steering Group, and the Self Care strategy group.
Regional LTC network 26th May: gave presentation re the Self Management network.
NSF LTNCs National Leadership Group: arranged second meeting of the Group 8th July. Agenda includes the Mid-Point Review of the NSF; Research Initiative programme for the NSF; the new policy landscape for the NSF; Indicators for Quality Improvement.
Conferences/Learning Events: attended Total Place conference 7th June. To attend regional telehealthcare awareness day 13th July, and MS Audit consultation meeting 21st July.
For previous regional updates, please see previous editions of the LTC team briefing document.
