A poster explaining details of the schools competition called: you name it You name it! Help us name our brand new website It’s time to get creative! We are inviting secondary school students to help us name our new website. Our new website will provide career education, a chance to experience work [...]
Northamptonshire will become one of only ten locations in the country to pilot a new maternal mental health service. The service will provide assessment and psychological interventions to women who experience mental health conditions relating to the birth experience including birth trauma, fear of child birth (tokophobia) or pregnancy loss (still birth, miscarriage or neonatal [...]
At the start of March 2020, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) and mental health charity, Mind, launched the 24/7 mental health support number for people across Northamptonshire. Within the first month, more than 3,659 calls were made to the number, which is designed to be the only number you need to call for mental [...]
Health and social care colleagues across Northamptonshire are being encouraged to get dates in their diaries for this year’s NHCP Virtual Wellbeing Festival. Following on from the hugely successful online event last summer, the 2021 Virtual Wellbeing Festival will be taking place from Monday 28 June to Friday 2 July. The festival completely free and [...]
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust (NCT) has published its 2021/22 business plan, setting out its commitment to the children, young people and families of Northamptonshire. The aims of the strategy are to: Set a clear strategic vision and priorities Support the local workforce Create a strategic framework Make clear NCT’s commitment to enabling the voice of children [...]
NHCP’s new ICS Elective Care Executive Board met for the first time in March to discuss a refreshed strategic approach to delivering better elective (planned) care in Northamptonshire in the wake of the COVID pandemic. During the meeting on Tuesday 23 March, Polly Grimmett (Director of Strategy at KGH) was confirmed as Chair of the [...]
Improving health and wellbeing outcomes for the children and young people of Northamptonshire is a priority for NHCP. The first Children and Young People Transformation Board took place in early March, which built upon the success of the system’s summit on 3 November 2020. The meeting attendees unanimously agreed to drive forward the commitments that [...]
The Integrated Care Across Northamptonshire (iCAN) Programme is now gathering pace and momentum as it moves into the first year of its Five Year Roadmap. In the face of continued health and care system pressures caused by COVID and the roll-out of the vaccination programme, health, social care and voluntary sector colleagues are coming together [...]
Jamil Qureshi As part of ongoing support to leaders across our health and care system, NHCP’s workforce team has launched a new series of monthly webinars bringing world-class leaders to our virtual space to engage, inform and inspire across a range of topics. The first of these Leadership Matters Conversations took place at [...]
Northamptonshire has been confirmed as one of 13 new Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to be rolled out in England. An ICS brings together hospital, community and mental health trusts, GPs and other primary care services with local authorities and other care providers to work together and apply their collective strength to addressing their residents’ [...]