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New research by Personalised Care Institute (PCI) has found more than 4 in 10 people have received health advice that is not suitable for their individual needs in the last two years. This leads to worsening conditions, avoidable GP and A&E visits and a failure to adhere to treatment. In response, the PCI has launched Transforming Health through Personalised Care: Strategies for ICBs, Trusts and PCNs. The free education and advice hub aims to help NHS organisations use personalised care training initiatives to tackle regional priorities, improve health outcomes and enhance workforce development. Featuring NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board and the Greater Manchester GP Excellence Programme, there is a practical webinar outlining how these innovative integrated care boards have embedded personalised care education across condition pathways and multidisciplinary teams. Visit the hub at: https://lnkd.in/evx8g_Hb #PersonalisedCare #HealthAdvice

When people have choice and control over their health and care, it leads to better outcomes.🧑🤝🧑 But embedding personalised care into practice is not easy - especially at scale across organisations. It requires a workforce equipped with the practical processes and skills to consistently deliver this approach across entire services, teams and locations. That’s why we’ve launched Transforming Health Through Personalised Care: Strategies for ICBs, Trusts and PCNs - a free education and advice hub. It provides educational leads and commissioners with the opportunity to learn from NHS teams who have been there and done it, as well as from experts who have helped the NHS embed personalised care at scale. Access the hub here: https://lnkd.in/evx8g_Hb

Exciting update! The #TeamPrimaryCare initiative, co-led by CFPC & the Canadian Health Workforce Network, has made significant strides in transforming primary care training! Highlights include key accomplishments and learnings, emphasizing the need for a shift to team based care. Read the full report and discover next steps for policy, training, and infrastructure reforms: https://lnkd.in/g3Q3BkRm #PrimaryCare #TrainingForTransformation

To truly impact health outcomes at the population and place level, we must focus on housing, education, and economic development instead of working directly in health. We must acknowledge that our current partnership system among the public sector, VCSE, and private sector perpetuates wealth and health inequalities, despite our best efforts and intentions. How can the VCSE sector disrupt these entrenched systemic patterns of inequality? This is a significant challenge that lacks sufficient attention. The NHS, while controlling the majority of the health outcome budget, has a relatively minor impact on population-level health outcomes. This dynamic often relegates the VCSE sector to a supportive role for the NHS, rather than a leading one. What if we reversed this relationship, positioning the NHS and public sector as supporters of the VCSE sector in tackling health inequalities and improving outcomes for the poorest? This shift could challenge the orthodoxy of economic growth and trickle-down economics, prompting a more serious consideration of the wellbeing economy.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO HEALTH CARE AFTER HARBOROUGH DC [2023] EWHC 263 An interesting decision about healthcare contributions under section 106 agreements. Many of you in the planning world will know that, following R(oao University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust) v Harborough DC [2023] EWHC 263 (Admin), contributions to NHS services in section 106 agreements may be problematic (see §§139-152). They may not comply with the test under Regulation 122 of the CIL Regulations, and – if the benefits of those contributions are considered in the planning balance – may result in an unlawful decision (see §136). This decision helpfully illustrates the scope of that judgment, at DL19 to 22. The Inspector found that the section 106 contribution – which was for a defined, identified infrastructure project for primary health care, and whose amount was calculated based on a methodology that considered the number of homes for which planning permission was sought – was lawful under the CIL Regulations. It was unlike the contribution sought in Harborough DC, which was (essentially) generally for the funding of secondary health care services (see §13 of that judgement). The distinction between funding for services and funding of infrastructure was foreshadowed in Harborough DC at §127, and should be borne in mind when considering healthcare contributions in the future.

This month's message from our CEO: The NHS has outlined three key shifts in its transformation: 🏥 Hospital to community 💻 Analogue to digital ⚕️ Sickness to prevention With the development of the NHS 10-year plan underway, this is our chance to amplify the voice of digital health professionals and ensure inclusion in this plan. FEDIP is committed to ensuring our workforce is recognised as instrumental in driving change. In parallel, discussions on NHS manager registration highlight the importance of professional standards and access to learning opportunities—aligned with FEDIP's mission of ensuring excellence through CPD, competencies, and ethical standards. Together, we can build a stronger, more effective healthcare future. We're inviting FEDIP-registered Practitioners to a workshop to help us develop our response to the 10-year plan. More details are in this month's newsletter. 📖 Not getting the newsletter? Join us here >> https://lnkd.in/evYh2rxW

THE NHS IN CRISIS - REFORM OR DIE The findings of this independent review of the NHS is unlikely to surprise many people in the UK, but it does pave the way for the radical reforms that are needed. The big question is, will those tasked with addressing the hugely complex systemic problems faced by the NHS have the systems thinking and practice capabilities to design and implement the necessary reforms. The answer is almost certainly no. That is not really their fault. Leaders in most industries and sectors have massive "systems thinking capabilities gaps," as I have been calling them for some time. The Enlightened Enterprise Academy developed programmes in Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity with Dr Mike C Jackson OBE to try and address this problem. And we are currently running a deep dive programme to focused on Critical Systems Thinking and Practice related to Health systems generally, not only in the UK. We will be offering further Introductory, Exploratory, and Deep Dive versions of our programmes again from 2025, online for a global audience. Some can also be offered bespoke for private clients. For details: paul@enlightenedenterprise.ac To conclude, the NHS is in a crisis due to the systems thinking capabilities gaps in the NHS and in successive governments. It does need radical reform. But radical reform without the required systems thinking and practice capabilities is very likely to lead to another round of failure and even greater despair amongst the great people who struggle to do the best they can in a systems that needs intensive care itself. Download the Independent Review: https://lnkd.in/eC4_8n2U Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham OM KBE PC FRS #lorddarzi #DarziReview #DarziReport #NHS #UKGovernment #Health #Care #Healthcare #NationalHealth #NationalHealthSystem

Equip yourself with crucial knowledge on advanced care planning at the May 14 Lunch n’ Learn! 🌟 Join Caregivers Alberta, Alberta Health Services and expert Corinne Spronken for a crucial session about Advanced Care Planning and Goals of Care Designations. 📅 Date & Time: May 14, 12:00 to 1:00 PM Register to this FREE community information session here https://bit.ly/3w3ixEG In this informative session, you’ll discover: 1. Advance Care Planning 2. Steps to writing personal directives to express your healthcare wishes. 3. Goals of Care Designation 4. Green Sleeves: What is it? What documents does it hold? How do I use it? Learn how to ensure your healthcare wishes are understood and respected in times when you might not be able to communicate them yourself! Corinne Spronken, MHA, BSW, RSW, is an experienced Education Consultant specializing in Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care for the Calgary Zone, Alberta Health Services. #AdvancedCarePlanning #HealthcarePreparedness #CaregiversAlberta #PersonalDirectives #GoalsOfCare

Quiz Time! I was chatting to a friend (not in healthcare) about the 10-year plan consultation and I found myself trying to describe the organisational structure for NHS primary care in England to a layman 🤔 My suggestion for Wes is that some clarity, if not simplification, of the landscape would be progress for all stakeholders – we shouldn’t assume that it is easy to understand, and that’s just for primary care. As it’s Friday, and to illustrate my point, I’ve created a little quiz.... 🤩 Which ‘entities’ are described below – choose from ICS, ICB, Place, GP Fed, PCN and Practice (definitions are mostly NHSE or Confed)? A - ...collaborative arrangements between organisations responsible for arranging and delivering health and care services and others with a role in improving health and wellbeing. B - ...enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for people close to home C – ...local partnerships that bring health and care organisations together to develop shared plans and joined-up services D – ...to plan and deliver high-quality healthcare for a specific geographical area E - ...to improve the quality of care for patients by working together to deliver services at scale F – ...an independent business that provides services to the NHS under contract...the main point of contact for general healthcare for NHS patients #nhsprimarycare #nhs #jargonbusting #organisationpurpose #clarityofpurpose #patientengagement #KISS

It was a pleasure to be invited to last night's 10 Year Health Plan launch at the Science Museum in London and to hear Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting's thoughts on how the government intend to go about engaging with the public and with professionals before the Plan launches next spring. It was heartening to hear such strong commitments from Wes about the future of the healthcare system being a true partnership between the public, private and voluntary sectors and that to get the NHS back on its feet and fit for the future it would require a collective effort amongst a plurality of participants. There has been criticism from some quarters that the government should be launching a plan now but Wes was, understandably I think, very clear that would be the wrong approach and that there needed to be a consensus on the way forward before a Plan is launched. He did however observe that some of the suggestions on day 1 of the consultation such as replacing him as Health and Social Care Secretary with a Labrador might not make the final cut! At Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) we are currently working on our own engagement exercise with members to help inform the sector's response to the consultation and we will be communicating our approach to IHPN members in tomorrow's (24 Oct) weekly update. We know that there is a real opportunity to cement the fact that the sector has been and must continue to be a key part of frontline NHS care and that in areas like capital investment, patient choice, productivity, innovation and community care provision (to name but a few), the industry has a key part to play in making the NHS fit for the future.