OND Updates
The following links will take you directly to our Blog (update) categories
Person
High Flow (Multiple complex needs)
Community Flow (Hospital discharge)
Place
System
Reducing Health Inequalities
Health Inequalities Strategy for Northern Devon
Tackling fuel poverty together
Reducing non-attendance rates in areas of deprivation
Cost-of-Living crisis – A local response
Improving Wellbeing
Healthy Ageing in Northern Devon (HAND)
- A monthly HAND update also available at bottom of HAND page
Falls Management exercise programme
Promoting Healthy Weight & Physical Activity
Tackling loneliness with transport
Other updates
Community Mental Health Framework (One Devon)
Resources
This page is being updated – The content below is pre October 2022 (is being replaced by a blog structure that you can access from the links above – under construction)
- They have online sessions starting in September 2022
(3rd August 2022) Unpaid carers awareness training available
Supporting Unpaid Carers – Wellbeing Teams Network Meeting July 2022 (PowerPoint)
Here is the link to the online training course which could be useful for anyone who wants to find out a bit more https://devoncarers.org.uk/online-awareness-training/. They’ll need to register on the website, and will then get access to the video training. Once they complete it, they’ll get an electronic certificate too. It takes about 30 minutes to watch all the videos.
The Devon Carers Awareness Manager, Suzie, would be really happy to get alongside any groups and arrange some more detailed awareness training for them / work with them to create any resources they need or to collaborate with them, including the Carer Recognition Tools – It’s a really simple card that can attach to their ID lanyards and gives some pointers and what to do if they identify a carer – may be a useful reminder to have on them! Please contact SuzieWalters-Jeffries@devoncarers.org.uk
Updates
18/8/22 – Connecting Actively with Nature (CAN) Autumn 2022 programme
We will be running two new CAN projects this Autumn (Connecting Actively with Nature) funded by Active Devon. These projects are aimed at over 55’s wanting to become more active and meet people in their local community reducing isolation and loneliness. We will be putting up some posters to advertise the programmes but wanted to give you a heads up just in case you would like to refer people into the project. The first one CAN Explore Exmoor in Autumn will start on 26th September and this time we are aiming at the more rural communities and will be providing transport to link a route from Ilfracombe, Hele Bay, Watermouth, Berrynarbor & Combe Martin.
- Participants are required to sign up for the full 10-week programme to benefit from the funding and will be asked to complete a base line questionnaire (we will assist with this)
- The CAN project has run across North Devon for the last 18 months, South Molton (2) , Barnstaple (2) & Lynton and Lynmouth have had programmes. The next two will be focused on some of the more rural community pick ups.
- The first one through Ilfracombe, Hele Bay, Combe Martin and the second through Fremington, Landkey, Swminbridge and Filleigh.
- The second programme will incorporate a route from Fremington through, Landkey, Swimbridge & Filleigh so will be more appropriate for Barnstaple
Updates
(July 2022)
- One Small Step’s Summer 2022 Newsletter
- Extract: The Community Engagement team made contact with a variety of men specific groups this year including Dough Bro’s, Andy’s Man Club and local Men’s Sheds. We visited some of the groups some lively conversations around staying healthy as we age and the the importance of social groups for staying active and building a social life. If you are part of a community group who might be interested in knowing more about what the Community Engagament Team can do for your community group send us an email at communityengagement@onesmallstep.og.uk
(June 2022)
- FREE eMECC (Making Every Contact Count) is on Wednesday 6th July 10am-1pm.
Participants will gain skills, knowledge and confidence to have ‘healthy’ conversations with people about their health and wellbeing whether in a voluntary or paid capacity. If you would like to sign up, please contact my colleague kristinahargreaves@onesmallstep.org.uk (Organiser and Tutor). - A brief alcohol awareness training package which would enable people to be more confident in approaching conversations with people around their alcohol use. It’s up to an hour and Mark is happy to deliver this to anyone who would like to take part.Please contact Mark for further information – markkeeley@onesmallstep.org.uk
Torrington Pride event and exhibition information
Are any of you interested in hosting the Sunrise Diversity ’50 years of Pride’ exhibition? If any organisations would like to host the exhibition in a foyer or staff room, Tanya can deliver it across Northern Devon – contact Tanya at tanya@sunrisediversity.org.uk to book now.
Attached is more information and a photo of the exhibition, which also includes a section on:
- Being an ally- crucially important in terms of supporting people who may be questioning their gender or sexual identity#
Previously
- Together with the Plough Arts Centre they hosted a film night and exhibition to celebrate 50 years of UK Pride and the good attendance demonstrated the support and solidarity for people from the LGBTQ+ community, not only in Torrington but across Northern Devon.
- The exhibition details the progress made towards acceptance and inclusion across 5 decades whilst recognising pivotal milestones, significant challenges and the discrimination faced by the LGBTQ+ community as well as some local queer stories and advice on how to be a good ally. I’m sure you will agree crucial in terms of promoting emotional health and wellbeing for people who may be questioning their sexual or gender identity.
- Two films were screened, firstly the 2019 documentary ‘Are you Proud’, which used archive materials together with interviews from leading campaigners to portray a moving account of the historical context and the lived experience of people from the LGBTQ+ community. The second film ‘Stonewall Forever’- was a short documentary about the past, present and future of Pride (links in attached doc)
People
Lou Higgins, Locality Director (Interim) – North and East Devon, NHS Devon & Devon County Council
Useful links
Integrated care systems explained (Kings Fund)
Updates
5/8/22 – Shared patient records
Health and care partners are preparing to launch the Devon and Cornwall Care Record this summer.
The DCCR will enable authorised health and care staff to see relevant details held by a range of health and care providers across Devon, Cornwall and the Isle of Scilly in a single record – giving them a more complete view of a patient’s history. It’s part of a national programme to transform information sharing across health and social care.
The launch is part of a phased roll out that will enable additional organisations to sign up to use the system over time. To date, 108 organisations have signed up. Read more
(22/7/22) Help develop an ICS strategy
- The ICS is informed by a VCSE Assembly
- The ICB (One Devon) has created a ‘Community First Strategy’ (draft) that sets out a vision – ‘To create the conditions to empower people to take a greater role in their own health and care and deliver services which use our workforce most effectively to deliver outstanding care; providing sustainable, community care based on what people tell us they need, in the place they most want to be enabled by collaborative design, commissioning and delivery across Devon ICS.’
- Introducing One Devon (video)
- They ‘want community services, including the voluntary sector, to be far more prominent in our system with well thought out planning regarding the steps we need to take to achieve the vision.’
- This strategy will be signed of in September by the ICB, OND requested a copy and asked if we can share with VCSE leaders for commenting. Please read and send any comments for consideration by Friday 29th July 2022 to vanessavale@nhs.net
(14 July 2022) Making sense of Integrated Care Part 2
- Integrated care boards (ICBs) replaced clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the NHS in England from 1 July 2022.
- One Devon is the name for the ICB in our county. They are ‘a collaboration of the NHS and local councils, as well as a wide range of other organisations like the voluntary sector, who are working together to improve the lives of people in Devon.’
- The Health and Social Care Act 2022 requires ‘The responsible local authority and each of its partner integrated care boards must prepare a strategy (“a joint local health and wellbeing strategy”) setting out how the assessed needs [Joint Strategic Needs Assessments] in relation to the responsible local authority’s area are to be met by the exercise of functions of— (a) the responsible local authority, (b) its partner integrated care boards, or (c) NHS England (Section 26, 5b, 2).
- Local care partnerships (LCPs) ‘are collaborations between a wide range of organisations and groups who help people live happier and healthier lives… Devon has five LCPs across the county’… An LCP is not a new organisation but a renewed partnership that, by aligning resources and efforts, will collectively seek to make a difference to the lives of people in [specific areas e.g. Northern Devon]. Many factors affect people’s health and wellbeing from their homes and personal finances to their education and employment. LCPs bring together the organisations and groups that provide these services (and many others) to better support people and communities.’
- Devon has five LCPs across the county: In Northern Devon, ‘One Northern Devon’ are an integral part of the LCP.
Here’s a useful video from the Kings fund explaining these important changes to our Health and Care systems and a blog post from Nuffield Trust ‘A new NHS reorganisation: will it work this time?‘
(June 2022) Making sense of Integrated Care Part 1
This structure or terminology can be reflected in evaluation reports. There is a lot of work underway at the moment as Integrated Care Systems become statutory bodies that have Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs). There are clear structures at each level of the hierarchy as in the diagram but how each level communicates with the other doesn’t seem as developed at this time.
In the NHS Long Term plan there are masses of work programmes e.g.
Prevention where there are the following programmes/ambitions:
- Using evidence based programmes for smoking, obesity and alcohol intake reduction
- Managing diabetes
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Reducing air pollution
- Provide digital tools e.g. smartphone apps to enable more people to self-manage and access online services
Ageing Well as far as I can glean and what I was told by NHS England was that there are the following main programmes
- Urgent Community Response
- Anticipatory Care
- Enhanced Health in Care Homes
This slide is helpful to see how some of the work overlaps and is focussed
Updates
(June 2022)
Northern Devon Futures (NDF) is the partnership of organisations working together to improve the
lives of those who live and work in Northern Devon and to plan for the future of the area. The partnership will agree its vision, aims and objectives at its next meeting, following consultation. The draft vision proposed is set out below:
‘The Vision of the Partnership is that by 2050 Northern Devon is healthy, prosperous and sustainable, recognised for its aspiration, innovation, and ability to get things done. A place where all are able to succeed and no one is left behind.’
John Womersley, Chair of One Northern Devon, is one of the Membership of the NDF Partnership Strategic Board.
There are five action groups:
- Economy, Innovation and Skills,
- Health and Wellbeing (One Northern Devon Board)
- Climate Emergency
- Place and Community
- Children and Young People
One Northern Devon are the proxy group for Health and Wellbeing protem.