Draft remit of the steering group for the implementation of the Rehabilitation Framework (the "Framework")
1. To monitor the progress within NHS Boards in delivering against the specific recommendations identified by the Scottish Government within the Delivery Framework For adult Rehabilitation.
The recommendations address access, local service provision, enablement and self managed care, sustainable multi-professional teams and workforce capacity. The rehabilitation co-ordinators will firstly map services and identify the problems relating to access to services and then develop board area action plans, which will be monitored by the group. This will provide the relevant information around developing action plans for the other grouped recommendations.
The responsibility for implementing these actions lies with the Rehabilitation Co-ordinators for each NHS Board area and the Rehabilitation Co-ordinators are jointly accountable to their Boards and local authorities within the constituent area. This function of the steering group will not interfere with or duplicate this accountability. Rather the steering group is intended to (i) introduce a reporting discipline and constructive timetable for NHS Boards for achieving certain stages, (ii) provide a benchmarking structure and overview for comparison of progress with the progress of other NHS Boards (for the benefit of each NHS Board as well as the Scottish Government) and (iii) a means of early identification of any problems that a particular NHS Board may be having in implementing the recommendations, (iv) ensure appropriate linkages are being made with all other relevant Government workstreams - i.e. Changing Lives, Long Term Conditions Collaborative, Shifting the Balance of Care etc.
The reports on progress from NHS Boards will also convey to the steering group information about the impact of implementing the recommendations of the Framework, which will be helpful in relation to the third part of this remit.
2. To be a forum for the facilitation of sharing of good ideas and emerging best practice
The membership of the steering group has been kept to a minimum in order to keep discussions focused and constructive. It is appreciated that all NHS Boards will not be represented at meetings but the steering group is charged with ensuring that any areas of emerging best practice, identified by the Scottish Government, are maximised, endorsed and disseminated in the most effective way possible.
The corollary is that any lessons learned should be shared in the same way. Any best practice identified will be disseminated through the relevant communities of practice of the Managed Knowledge Network and also through the Joint Improvement Team.
In particular the steering group should be instrumental in supporting the performance of any NHS Board which is having difficulty in delivering on a particular target by sharing learning on how other NHS Boards have managed to be successful in partnership with the Joint Improvement Team and their key stakeholders where appropriate.
3. Continually monitoring the impact of the implementation of the recommendations
This is the most important part of the steering group's remit requiring strategic and informed judgement about whether what the NHS Boards are doing (as required by the Scottish Government) is effective. The steering group is asked to suggest constructively how the workstreams should be altered or added to (if necessary) in order to achieve better results relative to the recommendations of the Framework.
The agenda for meetings of the steering group will facilitate this monitoring process and evidence of the impact of the implementation of the recommendations will be presented for consideration.
4. The steering group will report to the Ministerial Inequalities Task Force, which is being chaired by the Minister For Public Health.