17-019: Integrated Public Health & Lifestyle Behaviour Change Service

Our vision for a new integrated wellness service is to reduce health inequalities through better service integration, moving resources away from avoidable treatment and care and towards prevention and early intervention. An approach to targeting resources at individuals and communities of greatest need will be required. As an incentive to providers this specification and subsequent contract includes an Equity Premium payment designed to reward the provider for increasing the uptake of the service and completion of behaviour change by people living in areas of deprivation.

Public Health intends to commission services in an integrated model, to:

Public Health is seeking to commission a new service that will integrate previously contracted multiple lifestyle and wellbeing services. The new integrated service seeks to contribute to achieving the five aims of the Rotherham 2015 - 18 joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy which identifies that the key aims of the strategy can be tackled by a 'whole system' approach, and needs the involvement of the whole health and care system to achieve improvement.

The five aims of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy are :

In order to improve the public health needs of the people in Rotherham, it is felt a more holistic approach is necessary which takes into account the resources that are readily available and that will help enable people to sustain healthier living well as delivering a new integrated wellbeing services. Therefore the following existing services are being commissioned in a single service offer:

The above services combined with a new model of tiered delivery based on need, using innovative methods of access and delivery including a digital transformation of services, will form the core offer of the new service.