Following a robust national recruitment process, the fourth designate independent Non-Executive Director has been appointed to Northamptonshire’s Integrated Care Board (ICB). Northamptonshire’s ICB will be a new statutory body responsible for local NHS services, functions, performance and budgets. It will take on the statutory duties, staff and budgets of the current NHS Northamptonshire Clinical [...]
Earlier this year, Ministers asked NHS England to set out options for boundary alignment in integrated care systems (ICS). In light of the ICS developments, the NHSE national directive is that across the country the ICS boundaries should be the same as those of local authorities wherever possible. An image of Lakeside GP [...]
Five famous faces have been confirmed as leading the exciting line-up at this year’s Northamptonshire Virtual Wellbeing Festival for health and social care colleagues. These headline speakers will be delivering live keynote sessions each day from Monday 4 July to Friday 8 July at 12pm – with all system colleagues from across the county [...]
Northamptonshire’s transition to statutory Integrated Care System (ICS) status has now moved a step closer after the Health and Care Bill last week received Royal Assent. This means that we remain on course for the formal establishment of statutory ICSs on 1 July 2022. As part of preparations for this planned transition, two new [...]
A series of informal in-person activity groups to share experiences and provide support to people who have dementia, and their carers, have been launched by Northamptonshire Carers. These are all free to attend, and people do not need to have had a formal diagnosis to join. Those who are living with Mild Cognitive Impairment [...]
A new community heart failure project is under way in Northamptonshire aimed at bridging the gap between acute, primary care and community services for patients. The pilot project, led by Dr Emma Copsey, has been approved to receive evaluation funding and support from the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN) Evaluation Fund. In [...]
Northamptonshire’s Learning Disability and Autism Transformation Plan supports 12 key principles, which have been developed by listening to people with a learning disability and autistic people, their carers and families, and staff. The principles also respond to national expectations set out by NHS England and NHS Improvement and other national partners, and are set [...]
Northamptonshire is making a major step forward this month with the first pilot areas going live with access to the Northamptonshire Care Record (NCR). A significant amount of work has been undertaken to integrate our health and care systems and data with the NCR. The first live data flowing into the system is from [...]
Calling all health and social care colleagues in Northamptonshire – it’s time to start getting excited for this year’s NHCP Virtual Wellbeing Festival! Building on the successes of the past two years’ events, which were enjoyed by thousands of colleagues across the county, this brilliant online showcase of wellbeing fun and learning takes place [...]