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Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)

  • Last modified date:
    8 February 2007

The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) is commissioned by the Department of Health and other agencies to help services implement national policies for local benefit.

This includes the white paper - Our health, our care, our say - which outlines radical changes for health and social care services so that they are personalised and fit better into people's everyday lives.

Our main aim is to work with health, local government, public, voluntary and private sectors to improve services and the health and wellbeing of people in England.

We were created in April 2005 to help improve services and outcomes for children and families, adults and older people including those with mental health problems, learning and/or physical disabilities and people in the criminal justice system.

Our main objectives are to support:

  • the improvement of services to achieve better outcomes for people who use them and their families and carers
  • people to live more independently by promoting more choice, control and equality
  • community-based action to improve health and wellbeing, and
  • system reform, the way in which health and social care fit together to achieve a more joined up experience for people.

In order to achieve these objectives, we work to support effective partnership working, policy implementation, service improvement and people and outcome focused change.

More information about our organisation and work is available at www.csip.org.uk or by contacting one of our regional development centres, national programmes or the central team on 0113 25 45127.

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