CHP successfully hosted a Midlands wide workshop examining how effective partnership working can best support the left shift of services into neighbourhoods.
A group of healthcare and local authority leaders from across the region, supported by key NHS senior management and private sector partners met at Villa Park, Birmingham, to share good practice and discuss challenges and opportunities following the 10-year health plan with a spotlight on neighbourhood health. There was a particular highlight on the work done at CHP buildings at Washwood Heath Health and Wellbeing Centre and Long Eaton Health Centre.
Partners from across disciplines, including clinical, finance, commissioners, providers, estates, local government and a range of organisations, as well as national policy organisation the NHS Confederation, all attended to share and take part in discussion regarding collaboration across systems.
The success of the Washwood Health and Wellbeing Centre, Birmingham, and how it has brought services together to create what has been described as the ‘blueprint’ for the future of health services was part of discussions around work being undertaken in Birmingham and Solihull by Matt Forrest, Associate Director of Transformation, Birmingham Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. In addition, Angela Wright, Assistant Director of Place Development and Delivery, Derby and Derbyshire ICB dicussed the ‘Team Up’ model being used across her county. Each outlined their ongoing commitment to shift services into local communities, how it is possible to both maximise and measure the impact and affect this has for patients through innovation and collaborative working.
The ‘Team up Derbyshire’ programme aims to use a collaborative approach to deliver services including GPs, Paramedics and Advanced Community Practitioners within the community, supporting patients to receive the care and support they need at home, rather than attending a healthcare setting. CHP’s Long Eaton Health Centre is a fantastic example of where the service has been able to reduce hundreds of hospital and GP visits for housebound, disabled and frail patients by providing multi-disciplinary services in a local neighbourhood setting.
NHS Confederation representative, Mike Wood, presented his ideas regarding how neighbourhood health was not necessarily just based in health centres, it is important to explore what it means in a wider context throughout our towns, cities and high streets.
Mike Simpson, Director at Currie and Brown for England and Wales, considered the implications of healthcare planning and clinical briefing in delivering successful buildings through case studies from some of the work they are doing with clients. Dr Simon Murphy, LIFTCo Chair and Worcestershire Acute Hospital, Non-Executive Director/Deputy Chair, also spoke and chaired the workshop.
The workshop was a great opportunity to share learning and ideas from across the Midlands and to discuss how to create a healthcare system that is forward thinking and productive in areas of high health need. It also showed what can be done at speed with existing space.
This workshop gave us the opportunity to place key leaders from the region in one room and discuss how we can deliver meaningful change. I’d like to thank everyone who attended for their valuable inputs. It was fantastic to see the positive and collaborative forum created through the group sharing thoughts and ideas. There is already so much great work happening in our fantastic region and Care in the Community is having a measurable impact on patients.
The workshop was a great session. To me, this is all about turning the 10-year plan into delivery, it is about making a difference and doing things differently. It is about serving the needs of our patients in a different way to which we have done in the past.
CHP Midlands Regional Director James Weaver, Strategic Estate Productivity Lead, Guy Carson, and Strategic Planner, Payal Patel, organised and delivered the day, with support from both LIFT colleagues and Currie and Brown.
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