Our Trust and our healthcare partners in Calderdale have this week become one of 29 “vanguard” sites in England to take a national lead in transforming health and social care as part of NHS England’s New Models of Care programme.
The Calderdale health and social care partnership has been chosen from amongst 269 groups of nurses, doctors and other health and social care staff from across the country who put forward their ideas for how they want to redesign care in their areas. Ours was based on the successes of our Care Closer to Home programme.
Our partners are:
- NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group
- Calderdale Council
- Locala
- GP Pennine Alliance
- South West Yorkshire NHS Foundation Trust
The 29 winning bids were chosen as the most innovative plans for transforming patient care and will be able to draw on a new £200 million transformation fund and tailored national support. From April the vanguards will develop local health and care services to keep people well, and bring home care, mental health and community nursing, GP services and hospitals together for the first time since 1948.
Medical Director David Birkenhead, said: " We are delighted at this announcement and looking forward to working with our partner organisations both locally and at other vanguard sites to look at and improve further healthcare services for our patients closer to their homes and strengthening healthcare provision in the community."
The vanguard sites will take the national lead on the development of game-changing care models:
- multi-specialty community providers (MCPs) – moving specialist care out of hospitals into the community;
- integrated primary and acute care systems (PACS) – joining up GP, hospital, community and mental health services, and;
- models of enhanced health in care homes – offering older people better, joined up health, care and rehabilitation services.
It is estimated more than five million patients will benefit across the country, just from this first wave. For example, this could mean fewer trips to hospitals as cancer and dementia specialists and GPs work in new teams, a single point of access for family doctors, community nurses, social and mental health services, and access to tests, dialysis or chemotherapy much closer to home.
** All bidders went before a panel in London earlier this month to promote their work and then all had a vote on all the other projects - leading to CHFT partnership being one of the first 29 "vanguards" appointed.
Locally, Wakefield, Airedale and Harrogate have also been selected as vanguards. The full list can be found here - http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/5yfv-ch3/new-models-of-care/