East Riding Health and Care Committee
The Health and Care Committee represents the partnership between the NHS, local government and other partners including general practitioners through Primary Care Network (PCN) leadership and the local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS)
What is the Health and Care Committee?
The East Riding Health and Care Partnership is designed to understand and meet the needs of our residents, focusing on neighbourhoods and PCNs, integrating to improve population health. This represents a meaningful change in thinking and approach.
Within the Health and Care Committee, our population health approach has resulted in an agreed set of multi-year programmes that are based around individuals and communities, moving away from a traditional focus on sectors and services.
Rural and Coastal Communities
We need to reduce the unfair and avoidable differences in the health and wellbeing of people living in our rural and coastal communities. This programme aims to uncover and understand the differing needs and demand within the rural and coastal communities within the East Riding of Yorkshire and then improve the current balance of need/supply/demand of health and social care services.
A rapid needs assessment has been undertaken which aims to introduce local needs, challenges and potential solutions across the rural, urban and coastal communities within the East Riding. The rapid needs assessment can be viewed here: Rural and Coastal Communities needs assessment – East Riding JSNA
Bridlington Place Based Programme
Bridlington has a registered GP population of over 41,000 patients. Although the East Riding of Yorkshire overall has relatively good health outcomes, there remain pockets of deprivation and some of these are most densely concentrated in the Bridlington area. The programme is developing a partnership approach to improving health outcomes in Bridlington with the following workstreams:
- Health and Wellbeing
- Training, Education and Workforce
- Estate and Infrastructure
- Community and Transport
Healthy Weight
This programme aims to embed a more holistic approach to healthy weight and comprises of two elements:
- Reviewing the current provision of weight management services available in East Riding to identify gaps and strengthen pathways.
- Implementing a compassionate approach to weight across the system, by removing the focus on weight loss, changing the narrative by framing conversations around healthy behaviours, and creating healthy environments for people to live in. An East Riding Healthy Weight Network and a ‘More than Weight’ steering group have been established to lead the whole-system compassionate approach to weight.
Inclusion Groups
Inclusion health is an umbrella term used to describe people who are socially excluded, who typically experience multiple overlapping risk factors for poor health, such as poverty, violence and complex trauma, currently experiencing or at risk of homelessness, vulnerable migrants and refugees and those with substance and alcohol misuse difficulties. This programme is progressing the following workstreams with the overarching aim of improving access to and experience of services within the East Riding for inclusion groups:
- Understanding the strengths and needs of inclusion groups
- Workforce development
- Integration of support for inclusion groups
- Increasing strategic system partner buy-in
- Deep dive insight and co-production
Workshops with VCSE organisations have provided the following insight:VCSE insights into Inclusion Health – East Riding JSNA. Further insight from the Inclusion Groups Health Needs Assessment will be available in Autumn 2024.
Integrated Neighbourhood Teams
Integrated Neighbourhood teams have been established in five areas of the East Riding, with the ambition of full East Riding coverage by March 2025. They enable operational practitioners to come together and work seamlessly, sharing information, providing advice and support. Practitioners collectively support any individual, cohort or community that is causing concern through an early intervention and proactive care approach.
Complex Care Management
It is the ambition that through a collaborative approach, we ensure that our support to individuals with the most complex care needs provides positive outcomes for individuals, through high quality care across Adult Social Care and Health, whilst also being cost efficient and of best value. This programme has three workstreams that are shaping the future of care to ensure that it fulfils this ambition:
- 1-1 care and support assurance
- Older people care home crisis in-reach
- Section 117 development