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Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPPs)

Ping Pong (jpg - 88Kb) POPP is an initiative being led by the Department of Health, providing £60m funding to council-based partneships to set up innovative pilot projects to:

Provide person-centred and integrated care for older people.
Encourage investment in preventative approaches which promote health, well being and independence for older people.

The strategic aim of 'Partnerships for Older People Projects' is to test and evaluate innovative approaches that enable a sustained focus on prevention. It is expected that partnerships will demonstrate improved outcomes in:-

Providing more low level care and support in the community with a view to preventing or delaying the need for higher intensity and more costly care
Reducing avoidable emergency admissions to hospital
Supporting more older people to live at home or in supported housing such as sheltered or Extra-care housing rather than in long-term residential care

Making a strategic shift to prevention and early intervention - New Guidance

17/10/2008

New practical guidance has been published to assist local authorities and health communities in making a strategic shift to prevention and early intervention. It draws on the experiences and evidence emerging from the first two years of the Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP) programme and other related initiatives. The material is aimed at key groups of people:-

Those people leading the transformation of social care and implementation of Putting People First
Commissioners in health and social care with a responsibility for older people's services
Leaders from a range of public sector organisations who are involved in the whole systems work, under the auspices of Local Strategic Partnerships and the Local Area Agreement, to promoted the quality of life of older people.
Older People's Champions and those supporting the involvement of older people

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Pilot Projects

The POPP programme comprises 29 pilot sites. The first round of 19 sites started in May 2006 and the second round of a further 10 sites commenced in May 2007. The sites are very varried in their approaches. Brief summaries of what they are delivering can be found by following the links below.

Change Agent Team Support

The POPP programme is seen as a very important test bed for the preventative shift that the wider health and social care community is expected to make in future years, as outlined in the White Paper "Our Health, Our Care, Our Say". It is therefore being supported by the Change Agent Team (part of the Care Services Improvement Partnership) in a number of ways. In particular, there is a commitment to extracting the learning from the pilots and disseminating this as effectively as possible to the wider health and social care community.

POPP Newsletters

POPP Newsletter Issue 1 - 10/09/07 (opens new window)

POPP Newsletter Issue 2 - 28/01/08 (opens new window)

Self-Assessment Tool

Promoting Independence Self Assessment Tool:

A tool to enable health and local government systems to establish their successes and challenges in making the shift towards promoting independence, prevention and early intervention.

Promoting Independence Roadshows

Link to the Promoting Independence Roadshow Presentations

Other POPP Sites

Link to POPPs' Websites

POPP Events

View the latest POPP Events

New ring-fenced Social Care Reform Grant has been made available

A new ring-fenced Social Care Reform Grant has been made available over the next three years to redesign local systems. A core element of the funding is to support all councils to create a strategic shift in resources and culture from intervention at the point of crisis towards prevention, early intervention and enablement.

LAC (doc - 1146Kb) (opens new window)

Last updated 28/11/08 at 17:09

Health and Social Care Change Agent Team