Based on a model of care from the Netherlands (known as the Buurtzorg model), they are about to establish their first ‘self-managed’ teams of nurses who will deliver dedicated personal, social and health care to patients in a small area of Tower Hamlets.
The team will work collaboratively with formal and informal networks to ensure provision of holistic patient-centred care that promotes self-management, patient engagement and improves overall patient and staff satisfaction.
The Cancer Vanguard will develop programmes to raise public awareness and work collaboratively with partners in education, health and social care to shift the focus towards prevention and early diagnosis, to provide a recovery package to aid those living with and beyond cancer and to greatly improve care at the end of life.
Wakefield Council has chosen Nova Wakefield District Limited and South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s joint bid to deliver a new social wellbeing service in the district.
Nova and the Trust will work in partnership to deliver this innovative service to support local people self-manage their health and wellbeing.
Our Trust is one of four healthcare providers to be awarded the £10m-a-year Kirklees healthy child contract.
Story provides details of range of services covered by contract and organisations involved.
The National Audit Office has found that the Department of Health and NHS England have a high-level vision for improving patient access to general practice and have increased the funding available, but are seeking to extend access despite failing to provide consistent value for money from existing services.
IPC is about making “five key shifts” in how health and social care systems and professionals deliver care, so that in addition to personal budgets, people also have access to more peer support and local community resources, with greater connections made between statutory services and the voluntary and community sector.
In Hampshire we are working to deliver IPC, locally known as “My Life, My Way”, for disabled children and adults, as well as young people who are in transition from children to adult services. We aim to ensure that over 1,000 people locally have a personal health budget or integrated personal budget by 2018.
We want our young people who are moving on to adulthood to be able to say “Transition, what transition?” and we believe that IPC offers a clear, innovative and comprehensive framework to deliver that ambition.
The newly appointed Director of Integration leading on the personalisation agenda across Gloucestershire explains how local organisations are working more closely together than ever before in the national Integrated Personal Commissioning programme.
Practices which offered additional appointments showed a reduction in the number of their patients attending emergency departments (also known as A&E) for minor conditions. There was no overall reduction in emergency visits. Costs were reduced for emergency departments but by less than the cost of the additional appointments. The study did not evaluate whether or not this is cost saving to the health service as a whole nor if health outcomes were improved.
Interaction between local healthcare organisations is becoming both more formalised and complex. Money is running low, pan-organisation planning has become mandated, and the pressure is on to transform.
This session asked leaders from across different organisation types to give their perspectives on the pitfalls and benefits of local planning, including how they get the governance right, balance the books and keep relationships positive.
Lord Carter used his session to set out the next phase of his work to support improvements in the operational productivity of mental health, community and acute providers.
As a non-executive director of NHS Improvement, Lord CAreter also gave his insights into the challenges and opportunities facing NHS provider boards.
Transforming how health and care services are delivered can be both exhilarating and fiendishly difficult. The recent publication of some sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) has now brought both these issues to the fore. The plans reveal considerable ambitions to integrate services, embrace population-based healthcare and bite the bullet on painful service reconfigurations.
Tees Esk & Wear Valley (TEWV) Mental health trust and Blackhall and Peterlee Practice in Blackhall, East Durham are working in partnership to provide dementia assessment and review service for a patient list size of nearly nine and a half thousand patients.
Whilst mental Health services for older people in Easington provides the staff, the practice provides the infrastructure in this venture that has received great feedback from both patients and professionals.
People being referred to memory clinic , now are seen usually within a week at a place that has been a part of their lives i.e, their GP surgery.
Previously our pharmacists would make recommendations to doctors (quite often junior) and the doctors would then prescribe; our model allows the pharmacist to take responsibility for his/her actions by prescribing independently and autonomously. In this context, we no longer just put others’ mistakes right; instead we have moved forward in the process and adopted a pro-active role within the wider clinical team.
Over 80% of our pharmacists are either prescribing or training to become prescribers. A recent study of prescribing across the Trust showed that pharmacists at Northumbria prescribed for 40% (182/457) of patients accounting for 13% (680/5279) of all medication orders. In a separate audit looking at errors, from 1415 items prescribed, there were 4 errors (0.3%). http://ejhp.bmj.com/content/early/2014/09/04/ejhpharm-2014-000486.abstract
We are pleased to share a draft version of the contract, which you can view on the NHS England website. This draft Contract has been published for a period of informal feedback and we are inviting you to let us have your views on it.
Alongside the draft contract, and to assist those who are likely to use it early on, we are sharing a series of supporting, explanatory documents.