Starting on Thursday 24 March, a series of support groups for people who have heart failure, or have suffered a heart attack will be taking place twice a month in Daventry. The free sessions take place as follows: Daventry group: second and fourth Thursday of the month Northampton group: first and third Thursday of [...]
The target date for the establishment of statutory Integrated Care Systems (ICS) in England has been moved backed to July 2022, the NHS has confirmed. In a letter to all health and care systems, NHS England and NHS Improvement has advised that, in order to allow sufficient time for the remaining parliamentary stages of [...]
Alongside 41 other areas of England, Northamptonshire is planning for the establishment of our new statutory Integrated Care System (ICS) to formalise the joint working arrangements already in place for health and care in our county and to simplify partnership working and decision making. Subject to government legislation, this is currently expected to take [...]
Northamptonshire’s Population Health Board Health Inequalities sub-group has developed an online toolkit of resources to support colleagues across our health and care system to understand and address health inequalities. Health inequalities are ‘unfair and avoidable differences in health across populations and between different groups within society’ (The King’s Fund 2020). The unequal distribution of [...]