Welcome to episode 2 of the Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership Pod Squad – a podcast series for health and care professionals in Northamptonshire. In this episode we discuss the launch of the county's brand new Rapid Response service, providing urgent support for some of our most vulnerable residents. Music credit: 'Son of a Rocket' [...]
Welcome to the very first episode of the Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership Pod Squad – a brand new podcast series for health and care professionals in Northamptonshire. In this episode we discuss flu, and why vaccination is everyone’s business. Music credit: 'Son of a Rocket' Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution [...]
People living with respiratory illness in Northamptonshire are playing a central role in empowering themselves to choose well, stay well and live well with their condition. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) describes a range of conditions that cause breathing difficulties, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis. People with COPD can do a lot to help [...]
Our collective local strategy for delivering health and social care improvements to meet the needs of our communities – and ensure services are fit for the future – is set to be finalised ready for publication. The Northamptonshire Health, Care and Wellbeing Plan sets the future direction for all health and care organisations in the [...]
Work to develop a new county-wide social prescribing service for Northamptonshire is approaching a key milestone – with a formal decision on financial support expected soon. Social prescribing is a way of helping people to manage their own mental and physical health and wellbeing by referring them to local community-run services like [...]
Northamptonshire's new Rapid Response team A new service supporting some of our county’s most vulnerable residents has launched this week – and is expected to help us avoid up to 1,500 hospital admissions each year across Northamptonshire. The Rapid Response team will change the way we respond to elderly people who fall in [...]
Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership has launched a brand new podcast series offering another way for our county’s health and care professionals to keep in touch with the latest news and talking points. The NHCP Pod Squad podcast is designed to make it easy for busy NHS and social care staff and colleagues in the [...]
People in Northamptonshire are being offered the chance to have their say about particular aspects of local health, care and support services in the following public surveys: • Ambulance services – if you have used or needed the ambulance service in the last 12 months – particularly if you live in a rural area – [...]
The front of the maternity units at Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals and Northampton’s famous National Lift Tower were among the buildings turned pink and blue for Baby Loss Awareness Week 2019. These buildings, along with St Michael and All Angels Church in Kettering and All Saints Church in Northampton, were illuminated in pink [...]
Health screening and vaccination is being provided to homeless people across Northamptonshire again this year through a pioneering project which provides free health screening drop-in sessions. Northamptonshire County Council’s Public Health team has worked with partners to provide a number f these sessions across the county during October 2019. People attending the sessions will be [...]