| Welcome from Sir Andrew Cash |
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I am delighted to open the first edition of ‘Working for You’ in 2019.
I hope you enjoyed a restful festive period with your family and loved ones. Like me, I expect you took a moment to reflect on the year just gone and are now thinking about what the year ahead will bring.
Last year in the ICS we started to see real progress with collaborations to support people with complex needs, joint campaigns to keep people well and new community referral schemes to help people live independently.
We had investments of £555,000 to help prevent suicide, £880,000 to improve mental health services for new and expectant mothers and £600,000 for maternity services. We also received funding for Barnsley Hospital children’s emergency department and assessment unit and an ambulance hub development in Doncaster. These were in addition to the previous announcement of £10 million to support the expansion of hyper-acute stroke services at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and a new CT scanner and capacity expansion at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals.
Looking ahead, we want to do much more to address the avoidable differences in people’s health across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw and between specific population groups. We want to tackle deaths from heart disease, stroke and cancers and there is more we can do to prevent or delay ill health and treat people quicker.
We know that this year is set to be an incredibly busy and challenging time. However we return with fresh determination and a renewed commitment to being consistently high performing, with patient care and the public at the heart of our decision making.
This takes me on to recognising the fantastic Citizens’ Panel we have here in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw. We are very proud that the Panel is celebrating reaching its first year milestone. We cannot underestimate the contribution made and the guidance from our critical friends where they provide us a greater focus and relevance for the people most directly affected by our work.
We want this monthly bulletin to be a useful and interesting read to help you to better understand how we really are working for you. In it, we aim to address issues relevant to patients, service users, carers and the public, reflect their views, and meet their health and social care needs.
Please do share with your friends/networks and inform others that they can get in touch and join the mailing list to receive this monthly bulletin. You can also connect with us and share via social media should you wish - find us @SYBhealthcare on Twitter or / HealthandCareSYB (facebook). Best wishes to you for 2019.
Sir Andrew Cash
Chief executive, South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System
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| Showcasing Social Prescribing |
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All five Places in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw; Barnsley, Bassetlaw, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffied have a social prescribing, or community referral, service.
A total of over 10,000 people access various forms of social prescribing each year. The first scheme was launched in Rotherham in 2012, with others developing over the next six years. While the services have all developed differently to meet local needs and aspirations, they all have the same core principles of empowering people and improving their health and wellbeing through non-medical community support.
Social prescribing involves helping people to improve their health, wellbeing and social welfare by connecting them to community services which might be run by the council or a local charity.
We have produced a showcase of the social prescribing services across the region. This document demonstrates the power of collaboration and integration across complex local systems and brings to life how non-medical sources of support can have a big impact on people's lives.
We are proud that this document will be used as an example of good practice by NHS England and will be shared on their new learning platform in early 2019.
Read the document and find more information here
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Dr Steve Thomas is the Clinical Director for Adult Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Dementia at Sheffield CCG and he is also a working GP. He is an advocate of the Working Win health-led employment trial.
As a randomised control trial, Working Win aims to test whether a new type of employment support is more effective for people with long term physical or mental health conditions than other services which are already available. To measure this, half the people who are eligible for the trial are given the new type of support to stay in or find employment, whilst the other half are provided with information about existing services.
Dr Thomas says: “Employment gives us a purpose and provides us with regular contact with other people as well as promoting independence. These are all things which can help us to maintain good general health and well-being both physically and mentally.
“Being in employment and being secure in that employment supports wellness because, it may sound simplistic, but it means that we are able to provide for ourselves; basic things like accommodation and food.
“The programme itself is a health-led employment trial and its set up to test out if giving GPs the ability to support people living with mental or physical ill health to get back into the workplace will make a difference."
Latest figures show that over 3,000 patients in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, who are living with physical or mental ill health, have been referred to the Working Win Health Led Employment Trial.
If you feel gaining employment will help you with a physical or mental health issue, or you need help to remain in work, talk to your GP about the Working Win health led employment trial.
You can also visit the website or Working Win Facebook page to see how it's helping many other local people.
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| Care Navigators increasing GP appointments across the region |
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Patients across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw’s GP practices are getting the treatment they need faster thanks to a new initiative from the ICS.
The new scheme is freeing up GP appointments with waiting times reducing from three weeks to 6 days in one practice alone. This is thanks to other members of practice staff having training on the range of health and care services available locally and which are most appropriate for different patients’ needs.
One of the 825 non clinical members of staff working in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw who has completed the Care Navigator training is Marie Wild, she is the Head Receptionist at the Chapel Green Practice in Sheffield. She says:
“We signpost people to different services that might be more beneficial to them so they get the quickest and best care. For example, for people who have shoulder or back pain, we have a physio service we would signpost them to first rather than waiting to see a doctor who would then refer them to physiotherapy. Mums with young children who might have ailments like conjunctivitis might not be aware that the pharmacy can treat them for that and the prescriptions are still free.
“It benefits the practice because if we are signposting people to different services, we will free up doctors' appointments for people who need them.”
As well as directing patients to different medical services, care navigators also help patients make positive choices to promote good health and emotional wellbeing. There are many non-medical schemes that help people’s overall wellbeing and existing conditions include things like walking groups, arts groups and lunch clubs or schemes that offer assistance to obtain advice for issues such as housing, benefits or debt management.
Find out more here or;
View the Chapel Green Care Navigator video here.
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We are incredibly proud to have a Citizens' Panel in SYB and this month marks its’ first year anniversary. We feel this is a fantastic achievement and has only been made possible due to the time, energy and commitment given by our members, all of whom are volunteers. We also recognise Co:Create for recruiting to, training and developing and independently chairing the meetings.
In the early stages, many colleagues and presenters came to speak with the panel at our request. We have now reached a point where requests are being made by colleagues/partners to come along and seek the views and feedback of the panel members. This is a testimony to the reputation they have built and we will do all we can to support them in going from strength to strength.
In last month's edition of the bulletin we asked the Citizens' Panel members about their highlights from the year. In this edition we've asked our members to share with us what they are most looking forward to being involved in in 2019. Here's what they had to say:
“I'm most looking forward to the next stages of the Hospital Services Review, particularly getting involved with community engagement that will help to raise awareness and provide opportunities to gain feedback on the impact of potential changes. I also welcome involvement in various ad hoc projects that are brought to the panel for our input as they increase my knowledge of the NHS and allow for further engagement in service development.” Fiona, Doncaster
“Moving forward and implementing the Integrated Care System (ICS). I look forward to being part of this.” Joan, Bassetlaw
"Working with the Citizens’ Panel members and making positive changes for the community, patients and public.” Mohammed, Rotherham
“Seeing how the Hospital Services Review develops with our input. I hope to be involved with some more public events to ensure that public opinion is heard and used to improve services.” Abigail, Sheffield
“Being involved in the transport groups and chairing the transport and travel engagement group. We’ll be taking their public perspective and sharing with the professional Transport Advisory group to see how this shapes the Hospital Services Review outcomes.” Mary, Bassetlaw
“Further engagement with ‘the general public’ of Doncaster and wider South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw and getting to know views on the Hospital Services Review and implications for Primary Care, mental health and community services etc.” John, Doncaster
“Developments with the Hospital Services Review and representing the Citizens’ Panel on the Allied Health Professional Council. As a former Occupational Therapist, I hope to bring what I've learnt as a member of the Citizens’ Panel to the table. This will be an interesting workstream.” Hazel, Bassetlaw
We also asked Co:Create what they are most looking forward to in 2019:
“Co:Create are looking forward to continuing to work with the Panel. We’re most looking forward to finding new members to complement the current group. We’re working hard to ensure that the Panel reflects the wider population. We’re looking forward to trialling meetings that should fit better around people’s working life. We’re also looking forward to helping to mesh together the work of the Citizens’ Panel with the new Transport and Travel Panel which we’re helping to establish.”
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| Engagement across the region |
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The Communications and Engagement team have been busy over the last few months launching a refreshed approach to communications (this bulletin being a part of that!) and have carried out many engagement events, meetings and discussions across the region with the support of our commissioning, hospital, voluntary and community partners. We want to raise awareness of what being an Integrated Care System means and the work we do – highlighting some of the fantastic new ways of working is just one way we have been doing this and our developing suite of videos can be viewed here.
In December, we were invited to attend the Sheffield Association for the Voluntary Teaching of English (SAVTE) Annual General Meeting. There was a fantastic atmosphere at the event as the community really came together at this special event. A choir of refugees sang rousingly to get everyone into the festive spirit. The Lord Mayor of Sheffield Magid Magid was also in attendance and spoke enthusiastically at the event about the achievements of the group and its members over the year. The attendees were very welcoming and seemed keen to hear about developments in health and care services.
The new year is also a timely opportunity for us to continue our conversations about the Hospital Services Review and the evaluation criteria against which we’ll assess any potential new clinical models. We have previously attended patient reference groups and patient participation groups in our local areas, Chesterfield and Sheffield being the most recent, so if you are a part of or run a voluntary/community group and would like us to attend one of your members meetings to speak about the work we do, please get in touch, details are below.
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In this edition we'd like to introduce Carl Jessop, Communications Manager at the ICS. Carl came to us on secondment from NHS England in November and is working on external communications and social media. He has produced a number of videos highlighting new roles in the NHS and also showcasing some of the services commissioned in local places which are having a positive impact on people’s lives. You can see as they’re released by following @SYBhealthcare on twitter. Carl first started working in the NHS over 10 years ago for the Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority and his journey has seen him work for a CCG, NHS England regionally and nationally as well as a Commissioning Support Unit. Of his new role Carl said: “I’m really excited about being a part of the ICS and how we are taking a holistic approach to health, considering all the social determinants. I believe through joined up working and effective communications we can achieve great things.” |
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We hope you enjoyed reading this month's edition of the 'Working for You' news.
If you have any feedback or suggestions about future editions we'd love to hear from you!
In the meantime you can keep in touch with all the latest news at:
Facebook: Health and Care Working Together in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw
Twitter: @SYBhealthcare
Web: healthandcaretogethersyb.co.uk
Email: helloworkingtogether@nhs.net
Tel: 0114 305 4487
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You can also join the e-mailing list here.
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