Northamptonshire Carers has published the latest edition of its Caring 4 Carers booklet, detailing the range of support services available to our county’s carers, as well as a host of exclusive special offers. As many as one in eight adults are carers in the UK and there are more than 70,000 known carers in Northamptonshire [...]
Providing the right care and support where it's needed most Members of the Age Well project team at work Frail and vulnerable older people in our county are receiving targeted support to live independently under a new initiative launched by Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership. Age Well [...]
Plans to develop more joined-up local health and care services which are shaped around the needs of their communities have moved a step closer this month. As part of Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership’s ongoing ambition to ensure integrated health and care is accessible as close to home as possible, different areas of the county [...]
In the past few weeks we have been speaking to service users and members of our community about Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership and how they might like to receive health and care information from NHCP. As always we encourage our staff, stakeholders and community to register via our Get Involved page to stay up to date with [...]
Carers from across Northamptonshire have been honoured for the fantastic contribution they make to our county at the annual Jane Roebuck Carers Awards. The prestigious awards ceremony at Barton Hall, Kettering, recognised the commitment, hard work and selflessness of carers – and also provided an opportunity for them to enjoy an occasion dedicated solely to [...]
Northamptonshire’s first cohort of nursing associates Northamptonshire’s first cohort of nursing associates have celebrated reaching the end of their two-year training at Northampton General Hospital. The 13 nursing associates are among the first in the country to qualify. Their role is to bridge the skills gap between healthcare assistants and registered nurses. They [...]
Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership, Healthwatch Northamptonshire and Connected Together are hosting a public engagement event to discuss the NHS Long Term Plan and how this can be aligned with our county’s existing plans and priorities for developing and improving local health and care services in Northamptonshire. The FREE event will offer local people the [...]
Left to right: Dr Sunil Sthanakiya, Dr Abdullah Mia, Abdul Choudhury, Gordon King, Tendai Ndongwe and Steve Gilbert. In February, Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHFT) hosted its inaugural Mental Health and Black and Minority Ethnic Communities conference. Keynote speakers at the event talked about shaping services for the future for BME communities, improving [...]
Hayley Steptoe A new support group has been launched in Northamptonshire for people who have experienced head and neck cancer and their families. The Swallows Northamptonshire is a branch of the national charity of the same name, and provides a way for people who have been through the significant trauma of this kind of [...]
In the March 2019 edition of Partnership Update, you can read all about an exciting new project to help some of our more vulnerable older citizens stay well and live well, and find out which four areas of our county have been selected to develop projects shaping local services around the needs of their communities. There’s [...]