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Addressing #healthinequalities is an ongoing NHS priority. But how do you engage with relevant partners across communities? How do you determine the financial cost? And how do you strike the balance between national systems, joint planning, and local knowledge to address them? We cover these questions and more as part of our health inequalities bitesize courses, free to all NHS staff and essential learning to anyone wanting to contribute to the health inequalities agenda. https://okt.to/OMLB1q

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Commenting on The Health Innovation Network’s Impact Report 2023-24, Dr Vin Diwakar, Interim Director of Transformation for NHS England, said: “The latest report highlights that investing in innovation, research and life sciences can significantly enhance patient outcomes and benefit the UK economy and society.” Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eKYmriY2

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Our new report highlights how community support and connection can improve the health and wellbeing of people living with #COPD and chronic respiratory disease in #Somerset and beyond. Read about our community engagement project to help NHS Somerset understand how to improve COPD diagnosis, care and support. https://bit.ly/3OzsIGF Research Your Way Ltd Asthma + Lung UK Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS)

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💪🏼 The Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) has shown the power of local collaborations to tackle national challenges. Over 12 months, the Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) has supported local teams across England to address healthcare inequalities. By focussing on the Core20PLUS5 priority areas, over 34,000 underserved individuals have benefited from improved access to healthcare innovations. Key achievements include: 🟠 Boosting cancer screening uptake in underserved communities 🟠 Delivering cardiovascular health checks in community hubs 🟠 Collaborating with local organisations to overcome barriers to care ⚽ The link between sports initiatives and health, aimed at improving access to services for underserved populations across Yorkshire and the Humber, is one of the many case studies featured in the report. This initiative sought to address healthcare disparities among underserved groups. By partnering with Yorkshire Sport and their Active Partnerships, the public health team engaged with individuals who typically do not access healthcare services. Integrating health services with sports helped to enhance the accessibility and approachability of health advice. You can read more about this initiative on page 37 of the report. Explore this and other case studies in the InHIP Impact and Learning Report and see how local successes can drive national change. 📑 Read the report here https://lnkd.in/e6MTTSWB

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Delighted to have completed a 2 year evaluation of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Adopting Innovation Hub, one of four across England funded by the Health Foundation. Both formative and summative reports of the journey and identification of what works to adopt and scale innovation in health and social care #healthinnovation #adoptinginnovation #coproduction #mixedmethodsevaluation #relationshipsmatter #culturechange #innovationleadership

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Tackling healthcare inequalities through innovation. Over 12 months, the Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) has supported local teams across England to address healthcare inequalities. By focussing on the Core20PLUS5 priority areas, over 34,000 underserved individuals have benefited from improved access to healthcare innovations. Key achievements include: •      Boosting cancer screening uptake in underserved communities •      Delivering cardiovascular health checks in community hubs •      Collaborating with local organisations to overcome barriers to care Explore the case studies and recommendations in this Impact and learning report to see how innovation and collaboration are transforming healthcare. Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/eNC9EmWC Included in the case studies, as a result of our work in NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (ICB), there are now several colleagues “trusted communicators” who have the knowledge to continue to support their communities in accessing cancer screening services. Amy Miller Maxine Farmer Timothy Clarke

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In our latest consultation response we share stakeholder evidence on the negative impact of replacing the PVG fee waiver for QVO volunteers with a discount, highlighting effects on volunteers, volunteer organisations, and protected groups in Scotland: https://ow.ly/tKfg50RY2JV

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NHS Trusts have made great progress setting strategic commitments for reducing health inequalities - but overcoming the significant barriers that prevent them from turning strategy into action remains a major challenge. To help address this @nhsproviders have reviewed 30 NHS trusts to reveal the key components of a succesful Trust strategy for tackling health inequalities, including: 👤Clear leadership ⚙️System integration ⚖️Measurable outcomes What key components have you identified? Read the full review: https://lnkd.in/eKfFAzcY

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We’re hoping for some good news for local government with the upcoming finance settlement. But local government needs more than “sticking plaster politics” to use a term from the PM. We need big thinking about the role of local government and what’s needed to enable it to succeed. This IFS report, published today by David Phillips funded by The Health Foundation is a big contribution to the debate. https://lnkd.in/evb5h7P4 The IFS have already shown that funding is allocated in an essentially arbitrary way between councils with little account taken of need and varying levels of inequality. The report points to three key areas where Government needs to make some key decisions:   1. The government needs to decide whether to channel funding to disadvantaged areas, as it does with NHS funding. We believe a greater focus on supporting councils tackle the building blocks of health will be essential for delivery of the health mission. 2. The government also needs to decide on the range and quality of services it expects from councils, and how much it would reasonably cost to deliver these. 3. Finally, the government needs to make decisions about the budgets that will be available to councils in the longer term, along with information on how budgets will be adjusted in different circumstances (like changing inflation rates) Fundamentally, government needs to think through the role it wants local government to play and support it to take action. This will require big, strategic thinking and big changes. This report should help think through the options to make local government funding fairer and more sustainable. 

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By all reports, inclusive leadership matters more than ever before. There is growing evidence to demonstrate that the most effective care services are driven by leaders who understand the impact of wider inequalities on health outcomes. But how can we measure for 'inclusive leaders'? Hogrefe #psychometrics can help target important criteria in selection by adding reliable data to ‘gut feelings’, while also supporting development and putting a measurement on employee #wellbeing. Find out more ⬇️ #NHS #NHSstaff #NHSwellbeing #NHSrecruitment #NEO #bigfive

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The timescales announced in this Commission on social care are disappointing. It feels like the proverbial can is, once again, being kicked down the road. We know what the challenges are and in fairness, the sector has many of the answers to those challenges. A missing link for me, in unlocking a political consensus, is achieving a greater public understanding of social care, first. I mean no disrespect, either to those working hard in care, every single day, or to those that access support and care, with these comments, far from it. I have been repeatedly clear elsewhere, that I hate the term “social care is broken”; it has so many negative connotations. In my opinion phrases like this, do so much inadvertent damage and is actually counter-productive to the debate. The point that I am really getting at is this; does the wider public really understand social care, in the same terms that they [the public] understand what the NHS is, and does? For me, this is a key battle in achieving meaningful reforms in social care, in quicker order.

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https://lnkd.in/eCwxkBG5 Darzi report on the NHS is out. Amongst other things it recognises the need to value managers and build capacity and capability

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https://lnkd.in/e5tXrK-P IMPACTAgewell’s asset based approach to integrated work is influencing systems across the UK.Our evidence based model of care has proven results for both outcomes for Older People and for saving costs to the health Service https://lnkd.in/e-NUA2fr 

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Money and health professionals will always be limited resources, but citizens, communities, relationships, and capabilities are abundant and intrinsic. If we are going to restore society’s confidence in the NHS, then we should draw on the power of society to improve it! Take a read of our opinion piece Richard Smith and I consider the reducing levels of satisfaction in the context of consistent support for the principles of the NHS. We draw on long standing participation approaches, learning from what matters to people as they come to the end of life and design principles to explore how people can be part of the solution. The Point of Care Foundation #humancentredcare #carecultures

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