The document summarizes an event about autism support in the North East of England and Cumbria. The event's objectives were to increase understanding of autism, raise awareness of available support services, and collectively promote autism support in the region's Transforming Care Programme. The programme aims to reduce reliance on inpatient care, develop community support alternatives, and improve quality of life for those with autism or learning disabilities. Key achievements so far include moving people from inpatient to community settings and on track to achieve planned bed reductions. Next steps are to finalize a community care model, implement new local models through co-production, and allocate funding to support the transition.

1. North East Autism Event
30th September 2016
Partners in improving local health
NORTH OF ENGLAND
COMMISSIONING SUPPORT
North East & Cumbria Learning
Disability and Autism Transforming
Care programme
Lesley Jeavons

2. Autism Event - Objectives
– Better understanding of the complexities in supporting
people with autism
– Greater awareness of the support and treatment
services available for people with autism
– Work collectively to raise the profile of autism within
the North East and Cumbria Transforming Care
Programme
Partners in improving local health
NORTH EAST & CUMBRIA
LEARNING DISABILITIES & AUTISM
TRANSFORMING CARE PROGRAMME
NORTH OF ENGLAND
COMMISSIONING SUPPORT

3. North East &
Cumbria will be the
best place in
England for people
with learning
disabilities and or
autism to liveImproved physical
health
Increased access to
high quality housing
Increased employment
opportunities
Increased opportunities
to live fulfilling lives
High quality care in the
most appropriate setting
Increased resilience of
people with learning
disabilities

4. Implementation
• Regional work via Task and Finish Groups:
– Community models of care
‐ Children young people and transitions
‐ Autism
‐ Medicines Optimisation
– Workforce development
– Rethinking advocacy
– Risk stratification and data sharing
– Finance and contracting
• Local Implementation Groups delivering the new models
of care and driving change in each locality
Supported by: NHS North of England Commissioning Support

5. Partners in improving local health
NORTH EAST & CUMBRIA
LEARNING DISABILITIES & AUTISM
TRANSFORMING CARE PROGRAMME
NORTH OF ENGLAND
COMMISSIONING SUPPORT
• Less reliance on in-patient admissions, delivering a
50% reduction in admissions to inpatient learning
disability services by 2020
• Developing community support and alternatives to
inpatient admission
• Prevention, early identification and early intervention
• Avoidance of crisis and better management of crisis
when it happens
• Better more fulfilled lives.
The transformation programme aims:

6. Key achievements
• People supported to move from inpatient to community settings
• On target to achieve planned bed reductions
• Transformation plan and approach supported by H&WBs and regional
OSC
• £1.2m Transformation Funding received in July to support new service
models across the Northeast & Cumbria
• Local Implementation Groups are progressing implementation of their
locality delivery plans
• Co-production Confirm and Challenge embedded within the work of the
Task and Finish Groups and Local Implementation Groups
• Community model of care developed and awaiting sign off
• Workforce development
• Financial modelling undertaken and contract negotiations underway
• Development of a Market Position Statement
• Transforming Care website www.necchangingcare.org.uk
Supported by: NHS North of England Commissioning Support

7. Progress to date…
• Autism Sub-group
– Collective wish to improve things for people with autism
and their families and carers
– Data gathering around the National Autism Strategy
– Challenges
• What good looks like
• Financial pressures
• Risks
Supported by: NHS North of England Commissioning Support

8. Next steps
• Final sign off of the NE&C Community Model of Care
• Local implementation of the new models of care
supported by co-production approach
• Allocation of national transformation funding to support
the transition
• Delivery on the task and finish group action plans
• Further financial modelling across local authorities and
NHS
• Specific work on autism including sharing the information
with Local Implementation groups to enable local
planning to reduce gaps
Partners in improving local health
NORTH OF ENGLAND
COMMISSIONING SUPPORT
NORTH EAST & CUMBRIA
LEARNING DISABILITIES & AUTISM
TRANSFORMING CARE PROGRAMME