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 [...]
Welcome to the April 2022 edition of Partnership Update. In this edition we’re delighted to bring you news of this year’s NHCP Virtual Wellbeing Festival, which it is confirmed will take place from Monday 4 to Friday 8 July. A packed programme of exciting and inspiring events is planned, with more details to be [...]
The NHCP Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism (MHLDA) programme has set out a three-year road map for the transformation of all-age learning disability and autism services in Northamptonshire. The programme has a responsibility to ensure the wellbeing and safety of all vulnerable adults across a wide range of living activities and to ensure [...]
A new video, ‘The Story of NHCP’, looks back on our progress so far as a health and care system and some of the things we have achieved together by working in partnership. This animation tells the story of Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership (NHCP), from our origins as a Sustainability and Transformation Partnership [...]
A new booklet, ‘Becoming an Integrated Care System: Our Journey So Far’, sets out how Northamptonshire's move to statutory Integrated Care System (ICS) status will cement our existing partnership working arrangements, and how continued collaboration will support us to achieve better futures together by delivering the improvements to health and care that our communities [...]
Health and care colleagues in Northamptonshire can find out more about what becoming an Integrated Care System (ICS) means for them by joining one of a series of online staff engagement sessions. Subject to government legislation, Northamptonshire is set to complete the transition to statutory ICS status on 1 July 2022. This will formalise [...]
Northamptonshire’s new countywide social prescribing service, known as Spring, is now fully operational with the aim of providing support to residents who are living with long-term health conditions (LTCs). Supported by the NHS, Public Health Northamptonshire and the government’s Life Chances Fund, Spring uses a non-clinical approach called social prescribing. This approach is designed [...]