Specialist frailty support is now at the end of a phone for healthcare professionals in Northamptonshire – making it easier to ensure people with frailty receive the care and treatment they need in the right place, first time. The new frailty phone system has been up and running at Northampton and Kettering General Hospitals during [...]
The countdown continues towards this year’s Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership Virtual Wellbeing Festival – as the first details of some of the activities on offer are revealed for the first time. The 2021 Festival is taking place from Monday 28 June to Friday 2 July. It is free and open to everyone working in [...]
An artist’s impression of how a redeveloped Kettering General Hospital could look Kettering General Hospital has been working up exciting plans for the redevelopment of the hospital through phase two of the government’s Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP2). After a period of extensive engagement and involvement with clinical, service and patient representatives from both [...]
Northamptonshire’s mental health stakeholders have consolidated their programme management function. This has involved a secondment for Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s Mental Health Commissioner into a new system-wide role, as well as additional programme support staff and a Programme Director to steer and deliver against national and local ambitions for mental health. One of the key [...]
The THRIVE Framework Improving health and wellbeing outcomes for the children and young people of Northamptonshire is a priority for NHCP. NHCP’s Children and Young People Transformation Board has adopted the THRIVE Framework to underpin the programme vision to deliver collaborative innovation of services in Northamptonshire. The THRIVE Framework is an evidence-based model [...]
From 1 April 2021, the Falls Prevention Service previously provided by Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust (NHFT) and commissioned by Public Health at Northamptonshire County Council, is being provided directly by Public Health Northamptonshire. NHFT and Public Health have been working closely together over the last few months to ensure a smooth transition takes place [...]
As 0-19 services in Northamptonshire continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, a review is being undertaken by Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) into the way these services are delivered. Health and care professionals across the county are being invited to play their part in this review by providing their feedback on NHFT’s school [...]
Having received Integrated Care System (ICS) designation in April, Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership is continuing to develop plans for Northamptonshire’s emerging system, taking into account the recently published White Paper and the ongoing response and recovery from COVID-19. Among other things, the White Paper sets out proposals which will foster greater collaboration and partnership [...]
Nicolas Hamilton Health and care colleagues can now register for two of NHCP’s inspiring online Leadership Matters Conversations coming up in May. The first Conversation will be delivered by Nicolas Hamilton on Friday 14 May from 2.30pm to 3.30pm as part of Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week. Born with spastic diplegia and [...]
Taking place between Monday 10 and Friday 14 May, the NHS’s annual Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week (#EQW2021) is a national platform for organisations to highlight their work to create a fairer and more inclusive NHS for patients and staff. The celebration provides an opportunity to promote, showcase and celebrate the amazing work going [...]