In this section you can learn about our main plans and strategies that help guide our work and our work with partners in delivering social care and health services across the borough.
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment|
The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for Gateshead identifies the current and future health and well-being needs of the local population. It informs the priorities and targets set within the Gateshead Local Area Agreement. It will lead to agreed commissioning priorities that aim to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
A Strategy for Health in Gateshead - 'The Big Shift'
|The Big Shift sets out what the Council needs to do to improve the health and wellbeing of Gateshead residents over the next three years through working in partnership with local agencies and local communities. We will use the Big Shift strategy to discuss further with our partners the contributions we can all make, both individually and collectively, to achieve our aspirations for an active and healthy Gateshead as set out in Vision 2030 – our vision for Gateshead.
Director of Public Health Annual Report 2009-10|
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The Director of Public Health Annual Report for 2009-10 aims to contribute to the
transformational change set out in Vision 2030. This year it focuses on what we know about on the one hand approaches to measuring inequalities and identifying vulnerability; and on the other building assets for health among our communities. These twin approaches have been selected this year as a contribution towards ensuring we maximise the effective use of resources in this time of austerity, and at the same time maintain our strategic vision. The Director of Public Health’s Annual Report complements the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, due to be published in parallel, which offers surveillance of a wide range of measures of health and wellbeing, and includes views from a range of stakeholders.
Vision for Adult Social Care|
In April 2008 the Council Cabinet agreed to adopt a vision for the future of adult social care in the borough, and an Action Plan to take it forward. It was based on the seven outcomes of "Our Health, Our Care, Our Say", the government strategy for community health and social care services.
Strategic Commissioning for Independence, Well-being and Choice|
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This document aims to explain to all stakeholders the outcomes Gateshead Council wants to achieve from social care services over the next six years. It will be the rationale behind the overarching contracts and agreements with service providers, and the strategy will set out how commissioners want to shape the market for social care in the coming years.
Research Governance Framework|
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Gateshead Council wishes to contribute to a quality research culture that will help to improve social care services. It also understands the importance of research and it is committed to ensuring that research is carried out to high ethical and methodological standards. Therefore this Research Governance Framework is intended to protect the psychological well being of vulnerable service users who participate in research, by ensuring that the appropriate steps are taken to recognise, minimise and deal with any distress that it might cause to them.
Gateshead Multi Agency Safeguarding Adults Partnership - Annual Report 2008/09|
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Report detailing the work of the Gateshead Multi Agency Safeguarding Adults Partnership for 2007 - 2008.
Gateshead Children and Young People's Plan 2006 - 2009
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This plan sets out Gateshead's strategy for all children and young people in the borough aged 0 - 19 and includes our priorities for 2006 - 2009
Regional Review of the HEalth Needs of the Ex-service Community|
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This overview and scrutiny review, which examines the health needs of the ex-service community and their families, represents the culmination of a year of intensive work by the members and officers of the North East Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee working in close partnership with a wide range of individuals and agencies.
Dementia Action Plan|
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