So what is POPPs?
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In March 2005 the Government allocated £60 million over 2 years starting in May 2006 to the Partnership for Older Peoples Projects (POPPs) programme. It invited bids from local authority based partnerships with at least one primary care trust and other organisations from the health, community and voluntary sectors.
The underlying aim of POPPs is to pilot initiatives to test and evaluate innovative approaches to the way services are delivered to older people. The aims of the POPPs programme, nationally are to:
- Make older people central to the planning and decision making of older people’s services
- Reform and develop better health and social care services
- Encourage health, well being and independence amongst older people
- Help older people to remain at home by reducing avoidable emergency admissions and freeing up resources to re-invest back to prevention services.
- Test and evaluate creative ways of developing and sustaining prevention services.
The approach goes beyond health and social care services and is based on the issues that older people say make the most difference to their lives. Most importantly, it means listening to older people in engaging with them as citizens about their concerns and about the communities in which they live and responding to this appropriately.
Who's involved in POPPS?
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Older citizens and service users in Sheffield, as individuals or members of groups such as 50+, Age Concern, Agewell, SADACCA and Sheffield Care Trust Users and Carers Council.
The City Council, the Primary Care Trusts, Sheffield Care Trust, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.
Neighbourhood forums, large and small voluntary and community organisations such as Voluntary Action Sheffield, the Black Community Forum, and the Carers Centre.
50% of the members of the POPPs decision-making Board in Sheffield are older people.
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