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Providing up to date information about health and wellbeing in Cardiff and Vale

The Cardiff and Vale RPB uses a series of measures to clearly show what life is like for people living in Cardiff and Vale. This is called the Regional Outcomes Framework (ROF).

The ROF helps partners clearly see our priorities and how we have decided them. We gather data from various health and social care organisations and sectors so people can find out information to help commissioning services. Any organisation with an interest in improving health and wellbeing in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan can also use the ROF data to inform their own priorities and use of resources.

Whole sectors and individual organisations or services can use the information to help understand and demonstrate their own contribution to improving the health and wellbeing of people in the region.

About the ROF

The Cardiff and Vale ROF sets out the key goal, principles and values, strategic aims and eight outcomes of the Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board.

Each outcome is underpinned by a set of indicators as a way of understanding the direction of travel.

Each indicator draws on data from a range of sectors, organisations and services as a way of measuring the direction of travel of each outcome.

Any data included is in the form of anonymised data tables and charts. Initially, a small amount of historic data will be included and short ‘trends’ may be visible. This will build over time and be critical in helping to understand if any change has occurred.

How does the RPB make sure this data is protected?

The ROF and the anonymised data it uses is available on a password protected website. The ROF is currently under development. Once operational, it will only be accessed by partner organisations who will use this data to inform their services, but will not share any information in any way that can lead to a person being identified.

Contact us for further information at [email protected].

Cardiff and Vale Regional Outcomes Framework

OUTCOME DEFINITIONS

Increasing time for people to live their lives

This System Level Outcome is about understanding and avoiding the time that the system wastes for citizens. It includes delays for receiving support, making people go through unnecessary hoops and generally leaving them too long in limbo, for example waiting to be discharged from care back to their own homes.

OUTCOME DEFINITIONS

Increased living well in their own home and community

This System Level Outcome is about understanding and ensuring citizens are able to spend as much of their lives well and at home, or at least living in the community rather in institutions, and as independently as possible. It covers general health, safety, security and positive relationships with family and friends. People are healthy, stay well, make positive choices easily, and remain connected. It’s also about the amount of the citizens lives that they are living in their normal home and in their normal community. It includes, for example, ‘admission avoidance’, supporting people to gain or regain daily living skills lost from ill-health and also, that when support is provided, it can be local to the citizen as much as possible. In their last 1000 days, people have the best end to their life.

Note that this System Level Outcome could also cover ensuring that the environment
in which Citizens live their lives is the best that it can be. Environment incudes the
physical environment for mental and physical well-being, but also the
infrastructure of care and support in which people can interact.

OUTCOME DEFINITIONS

Improved environment that enables people’s choices

This System Level Outcome is about ensuring that citizens know and understand what care, support and opportunities are available and act on those choices to help themselves achieve well-being. It includes making it easier for citizens to get information about their problems and the support options available to them, including the assets in the local community (and ensuring there are assets in the local community).
Citizens can then choose easily and can act upon those choices.
This also implies an increased prioritisation of prevention,
early intervention, planned support and a reduction in
reactive support

OUTCOME DEFINITIONS

More empowered workforce

This System Level Outcome is about ensuring that citizens and their families receive more excellent care and support from staff who are more fully trained and more engaged. It includes the right facilities, tools to do the job, staffing levels, leadership and (joined up) integration of services, a simple system, common concepts on risk, ‘dissolving service boundaries and developing a culture and values that span professional and organisational boundaries’. There is also an aspect of the capability of the workforce, and increased authorisation levels (to reduce delays due to escalated / remote decision making) – “We trust and enable staff to do the right things at the right time and pace for people, to make ‘it’ better.”

OUTCOME DEFINITIONS

A better start for children & young people

This System Level Outcome is about Cardiff & Vale being better places for children and young people (and their families) to grow up and live, including emotional, health and environmental well-being and safety. It includes the ‘First 1000 days’. The focus is addressing those most vulnerable, those with complex needs, with disabilities and those at most risk. The aim includes reducing the numbers of children not in education, children in the criminal justice system, children not living with their usual family or permanent attachments.

OUTCOME DEFINITIONS

People get a safe response when in urgent need

This System Level Outcome is about being responsive to citizens when they need support, including crises ‘around the clock’. It includes decreasing delays to the provision of support, decreasing the frequency of adverse events that require emergency interventions and quicker decision making – at the right time and pace for the needs of the citizen.

OUTCOME DEFINITIONS

Decreased avoidable harm or mortality

This System Level Outcome is about preventing the ‘system’ causing harm to citizens. The focus is on preventing or reducing physical and mental harms that can be experienced by patients/citizens.

OUTCOME DEFINITIONS

Reduced wasted system resource

This System Level Outcome is about ensuring that the resources of the system are used efficiently by reducing or eliminating any unnecessary work, including avoiding taking citizens along unnecessary pathways, eliminating the causes of rework and duplication in the system, such as mistakes, lost information, repeating procedures already undertaken by other providers, avoidable readmissions / return for the same service, or involving citizens in processes that give them no benefit.

Our Priorities

DECHRAU’N DDA
STARTING WELL

We want every child in Cardiff and Vale to have the opportunity to thrive. Our work focuses on children in vulnerable situations and the services that support them.

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HENEIDDIO’N DDA
AGEING WELL

We know how hard it can be to find help when people need it the most. We want to make sure there is community support to help people stay as healthy as possible so they can carry on doing the things that matter most to them.

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BYW’N DDA
LIVING WELL

As a Partnership we have worked together with people with a learning disability, their families, carers and the third and independent sector to produce a clear direction for the planning and delivery of adult learning disability services across the region over the next five years.

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