In April 2016, control of Greater Manchester’s £6 billion combined health and social care budget was handed over to local leaders as part of the first devolution deal of its kind. Since then, local NHS and local government leaders, clinicians and wider partners have been working together to develop services suited to the needs of the 2.8 million people who live in Greater Manchester.
A collaboration between health, third sector, local authority and other agencies has been set up to reduce demand on emergency services by frequent flyers. It bases itself completely within the prudent healthcare premise, working with the patient at every step of the way. It reduces unnecessary investigations, streamlines resources, protects the emergency stream and reintegrates patients into local community support. It enables working without walls, bringing unique solutions to entrenched problems, whilst ensuring that an extremely vulnerable cohort of patients is supported through changes to their multi layers of need.
From April 2017, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust will introduce developments to the way care is delivered in the community and will be investing over £1m to expand community services.
This will double the number of outpatient appointments offered at some community hospitals, provide short term support packages to bridge the gap between home and hospital to over 3000 people and reduce hospital admissions, seeing 350 people through a new frailty assessment service.
“In short, ‘No’, not unless they change direction”, say the authors of a new report, entitled ‘Sustainability and Transformation Plans: How serious are the proposals? A critical review’, published this week by London South Bank University (LSBU).
Thirty practices in South Cheshire and Vale Royal CCGs are using Medefer – a service that enables GPs to access online consultant advice and management plans – for patients who may otherwise be referred for outpatient care.
Since July 2016, Medefer has enabled around 150 Cheshire GPs to manage in the community 77% of patients they refer to the service – significantly reducing unnecessary hospital outpatient appointments.
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the contract to provide primary care services at Willaston Surgery, from December 2017.
Willaston Surgery, a GP Practice near Neston in Cheshire, becomes the second GP practice to be managed by the Trust
A ground-breaking healthcare project pioneered by The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) continues to grow with another GP practice joining the pilot scheme, Vertical Integration (VI), which aims to deliver better care for patients.
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CIPFA has analysed nine published STPs out of the 44 that are being developed in England to improve services while reducing costs. It found that although the plans set out proposals to close the widening financial gap, which the NHS estimates to be £30bn by 2020, some fail to set out a credible case for the deliverability of their savings plans.
The vanguard’s community and personal resilience workstream is focused on working with communities to promote self-care through education and a greater availability of health information, and on training staff to talk to people in a different way and involve them in making decisions about their own health and care.
Its aim is to reduce people’s dependency on health and social care by motivating them to have greater ownership, control and understanding of their own health and wellbeing, and by creating strong support networks within local communities.
In the first two months of a new service seeing patients in the community rather than hospital, almost 1000 people have been seen at their local opticians.
Since the launch of the community eye care service on the 6th September, 908 people have been seen at their local opticians for minor eye conditions and follow up appointments.
Prior to the launch of the community eye care service, optometrists saw approximately 30 patients with minor eye conditions each month.
In the first two months of a new service seeing patients in the community rather than hospital, almost 1000 people have been seen at their local opticians.
Since the launch of the community eye care service on the 6th September, 908 people have been seen at their local opticians for minor eye conditions and follow up appointments.
This document sets out a range of opportunities for pharmacy teams working in communities, and through their daily interactions with patients and the public, to play an important role in protecting and improving the health of the nation.
This service has been got up and running in 6 months and is now being accessed by 100’s of patients across our local area in Sandwell and West Birmingham.
Dr Aamena Salar tells us a bit about the service and the difference it is making for our patients.
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