Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership (NHCP) is seeking four Independent Non-Executive Members for Northamptonshire’s proposed new Integrated Care Board. The Integrated Care Board (ICB) will be a new statutory body responsible for local NHS services, functions, performance and budgets. It will replace the existing NHS Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Group as part of the wider [...]
Northamptonshire Health and Care Careers Academy offers a resource for prospective colleagues and students exploring health and social care career opportunities. The one-stop shop website brings together partner organisations, such as NHS trusts, GP practices and voluntary services. It showcases opportunity and reflects the joined-up approach of our move to full Integrated Care System [...]
The first of five systemwide Action Learning Sets (ALS) will begin on Monday 29 November, bringing leaders and colleagues from across our Integrated Care System together with analytics and finance experts, and Primary Care Network (PCN) teams (including primary care, community, social care, public health, secondary care and the voluntary, community and social enterprise [...]
The first group of ‘frailty aware’ professionals can better spot and treat people experiencing frailty, following completion of the first round of specialist training implemented by Integrated Care Across Northamptonshire (iCAN). The training sees experts in frailty care from across our local health and care system deliver sessions in partnership with the University of [...]
The Northamptonshire Integrated Response Hub (IRH), also known as The Mental Health Number, is celebrating after being recognised at the Positive Practice in Mental Health National Awards. The team took home the award for ‘All Age Crisis and Acute Mental Health Care 2021’, as well as being highly commended in the award for ‘Suicide [...]
The importance of collaboration in delivering better care for our communities has been set out in a new video from the NHCP Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism (MHLDA) programme. In the video, key leads from the programme explain why a collaborative approach is vital to ensure improvements can be planned and delivered across [...]
Northampton General Hospital’s Prostate Cancer Service has earned a national award for its work to improve the experience of men living with prostate cancer. The NGH team was named winner in the Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES) category of the national Patient Experience Network Awards 2021. The award is given in partnership with Macmillan [...]
The way Kettering General Hospital’s (KGH) Lung Cancer Service delivers great patient care has been accepted for use in national reports designed to spread best practice across the NHS. The hospital’s accelerated lung cancer diagnosis and treatment through ultrasound contributed to the national Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme. GIRFT reviews NHS services [...]
Angela Hillery, NHCP Board member and Joint Chief Executive of Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) and Leicestershire Partnership Trust (LPT), has been featured in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) 100, 2021. Angela Hillery The list features the some of the country’s most accomplished leaders, selected as those who will ‘exercise the [...]