This briefing outlines what integration is, examines policies to enable it and gives examples of integration in England. It also looks at the evidence on the challenges of achieving integration and assessing the effectiveness of approaches.
The Redbridge HASS has a greater focus on early intervention and prevention and delivers high quality integrated care.
It has an improved single point of access for people over the age of 18 with community health or adult social care needs and it delivers an integrated service at a local level to the following people:
• vulnerable older people;
• adults with a learning disability and/or on the autistic spectrum;
• adults with a physical and/or sensory disability;
• adults with a mental health issue. We have made it easier to access our services and reduce the number of calls and number of assessments a person has to undergo.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and mental health charity Mind in Cambridgeshire have teamed up to offer a new safe haven for those experiencing a mental heath crisis in Peterborough.
The Sanctuary will open on Monday, 19 September to allow people to get practical and emotional support.
The move marks the start of the latest stage of the Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguard programme in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
NHS organisations together with local authorities, police and representatives from the third sector have combined to launch a number of projects aimed at improving the way urgent mental health care is delivered and to reduce the pressures on accident and emergency departments.
NHS England today (29 September) published details of two more common frameworks for local health and care systems, organisations, communities and patients, wishing to develop and implement new ways of working.
The documents are based on the learning so far from the primary and acute care system (PACS) and enhanced health in care homes vanguards – describing the key ingredients that make up both models.
They demonstrate how the new models can strengthen primary care, improve access, focus on the prevention of ill-health and control costs. They follow on from the multispecialty community provider (MCP) care model framework, which was launched in July.
£2.1 billion has been allocated this year to a Sustainability and Transformation Fund (STF), which ministers said would enable the NHS to transform services and meet the ambitions set out in the Forward View. However, £1.8 billion of this funding is being used to reduce deficits among NHS providers, leaving just £300 million to invest in new services this year.
Bradford District Care is opening first overnight service for CYP in crisis - aim is to reduce children with mental health issues presenting at A&E and also to roll out across W Yorks STP area. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard, published in October 2016, is a response to the recommendation in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health that NHS England create a tool “that will identify metrics for monitoring key performance and outcomes data and that that will allow us to hold national and local bodies to account for implementing this strategy.”
It includes a suite of metrics based on the proposals in the Implementation Plan and is structured around the core elements of the mental health programme
After in-depth and comprehensive analysis of a range of data collected over the ‘Typical Weekend’, which was a four day live observation of how services work now, the upcoming ‘One Trafford Response ’ will see staff from different agencies - including Pennine Care's community health serivces - working in a central ‘hub’ on a range of real cases, as they come in, for action and support, involving: sharing information, supporting and challenging working practices, testing co-location of services, understanding how people access services day and night, and working collaboratively to help people in crisis.
Ten months in, and with STPs being submitted on Friday, now is a crucial time for the system to acknowledge and address some of the potential barriers to making the STP concept a successful reality, as well as considering how local areas can be supported to move from theoretical ambitious planning to realistic delivery programmes.
The innovations selected to join the programme include:
EpSMon: an epilepsy self-management tool which enables patients to monitor their well-being and know when to seek medical support
Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM): A collaborative model of care that sees a specialist, trained police officer working within community mental health teams to better mentor, encourage and support some of the most challenging, complex and high risk service users.
Yeovil initially trialling this for its own staff but may extend to patients. Virtual GP consultations via Skype. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
It is unfortunate that due to the decision by NHS England asking all local teams not to communicate any information about their Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP), we now see inaccurate reports in the national media.
The STPs have been discussed for several months with health, local government, regulatory bodies and the third sector. The idea has been to collaboratively prepare a credible plan for delivering better services whilst also identifying cost savings. The work around STPs involves the creation of 44 geographical “footprints” across the UK, ours being Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.
Community pharmacists must be able to routinely prescribe medicines for people with long term conditions and refer them directly to other healthcare professionals to ease the overwhelming demand facing the NHS says the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) in a new report to be launched at the House of Commons tomorrow.
As Birmingham and Solihull join the Integrated Personal Commissioning Programme (IPC), John Short explains why he believes IPC will work well for people with enduring mental health needs, as a way to offer people the flexibility they need to find their own route to recovery.