Jess Hutchinson >> My name’s er Jess Hutchinson, I’m Assistant Director responsible for learning
disability services. Erm, I’m part of Hampshire Adult Services, or Hampshire County Council,
and I er am the senior person responsible for the Integrated Personal Commissioning
Programme, or as we call it, My Life, My Way, in Hampshire.
Jess >> Being able to take an opportunity to step back and look at the whole picture
from a holistic point of view for an individual, and starting with the person, is something
that every single agency has talked about for a lot of years, but it’s very different
to actually start from that perspective, and look at the outcome for the person and start
there. So I think that’s a real difference, and it’s quite radical actually in terms
of taking that whole systems approach.
Jess >> I would like to think that we achieve fantastic outcomes in terms of reducing the number of beds we have in assessment and treatment
erm units, I think the kind of, where we want to get to with the Transforming Care partnerships
absolutely fits with our erm outcomes that we want from IPC too. It’s also about preventing
people needing to be admitted to institutional care, so if this was a success I’d like
to see far less people using residential care and far more people choosing how they want
to live and who they’d want to live with, and having far more of a role in terms of
making choices about the kind of care and support they receive.
Gail >> My name is Gail Bedding. I am the CEO of Hampshire parent carer network, the
parent carer forum that deals with Hampshire local authority and health. And I’ve been
involved with Hampshire parent care network for the last two years, and because of that
I am obviously a parent of a severely disabled young man, Fergus who is 11. Erm, I have been
involved in the IPC from the very beginning, and I sit on the UPC board, and in Hampshire
we call this My Life, My way, which makes it a bit more real in terms of what it actually
means. For me, as a parent of a young man, over the last few months I have been through
the transfer from Statement to Education and Healthcare plans, so I’ve sat through probably
a two or three hour meeting for that. Just recently I’ve sat through a personal budget
form filling exercise for social care, which was another two hours. I’ve also been through
a person centred planning session with my son, which was a whole morning. And what would
have been really nice is for all of those things to be done at once, er with all the
same people in the room that obviously look after and are involved in Fergus’s care.
And that for me is what I really want IPC to be doing, is to be bringing all those agencies
together, in one room, so I only have to spend, with my family, one session, deciding on Fergus’s
future and how that will work, and who will actually make it happen.
To get to that point, where IPC is really working well, is for all the agencies concerned,
to work together, to talk to each other, to stop working in silos, and to make each other
realise how important it is, that erm, they can make a difference to people’s lives,
just by making it simpler, and by them all sitting in a room together.
Jenny Steeples >> I’m Jenny Steeples, I’m from Hampshire. I have a daughter of 38, Claire,
who’s had a personal budget, social budget, for the last nine years. We live in Hampshire,
and when IPC, the bid came along I er was asked to be involved. Er, Claire had 23 years
of residential care. She has blossomed over the last nine years with a personal budget,
er, it’s no more expensive, than, erm while she was in residential care. Erm, she really
has a life now, where she had just an existence before. I hope that it will become the norm
for everybody. I would like to see all residential homes closed, and I would like to see that
people getting the life that they want and developing, erm as they should be.
People are used to what erm, what has happened before, what’s traditional. They’re nervous
to do it. We were nervous, but we did it. Erm, there’s not enough publicity out there
about the positive side of it, we need to get the media on board to realise that it’s
not any more expensive, and just because people do things that are imaginative, er it doesn’t
mean that they’re wasting public money. And that things like horse riding, that saves
quite a lot of money. You don’t have to have a physiotherapist. You go swimming, erm
some of the things that, my daughter goes sailing. That is so useful, for anyone who’s
stressed, to go out on the waves, it’s erm, it’s a way forward for people.