Portsmouth: building strong health partnerships using the Compact

Partners from different sectors in Portsmouth decided to reinvigorate their Compact agreement. They used the process of renewing it as an opportunity to assess how partnerships were working locally, and to lay the foundations for future conversations about commissioning and the voluntary and community sector.

 

The renewal process presented an excellent opportunity to build on relationships within the Council (particularly the Integrated Commissioning Unit) and to use these to foster new relationships between the voluntary sector and a range of health bodies locally, including the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).