An app a day… helping Humber stay happy and healthy

NHS partners across the Humber are breaking new ground with an innovation designed to help people lead healthier lives from their smartphone and tablet. With more than 325,000 health apps on the market, there is now a solution to help residents of the Humber region find the best and safest ones, in the shape of … Read more

Only a third of change programmes succeed, research suggests, so how do we navigate this tricky terrain successfully?

So we have a new government with a strong mandate making bold commitments about improving health and care services. Sound familiar? I have no doubt that this is well intended and this time around we do have a coherent long-term plan for the NHS that signals major change over the coming years. In Humber, Coast … Read more

With so much riding on our ability to genuinely transform our services perhaps we need a new model for the future.

New guidance places transformation as a major responsibility of Integrated Care Systems which is great but transformation is one of those buzz words that means different things to different people. I was in a meeting recently where somebody used the T-word and, in response, a local councillor said: “All you are doing is using a … Read more

We need to be brave and put prevention and improving the health and wellbeing of populations at the top of our agenda and engage with the civic power of local government in order to do so

Have you ever experienced the situation where you agree to do something months ago and then promptly forget about it until it comes up on the horizon? That’s just happened to me! Last year I agreed to speak on NHS futures at a big Med Tech conference in Birmingham, which is taking place in a … Read more

It’s like trying to play 3D chess! – balancing the development of place and collaboration amongst local services and teams with developing the Humber, Coast and Vale Integrated Care System

I have spent quite a bit of time this week meeting CCG and Council colleagues from East Riding, Hull, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. There were tough, robust and constructive discussions about balancing the development of place and collaboration amongst local services and teams with developing the Humber, Coast and Vale Integrated Care System. … Read more

Humber, Coast and Vale Mental Health Partnership gearing up for inaugural conference

The Humber, Coast and Vale Mental Health Partnership is hosting its first ever partnership-wide conference on Friday (15th November) – to celebrate the fantastic work taking place in mental health across our region. The inaugural Celebrating Mental Health in Partnership Conference takes place at the lakeside Conference Centre in York between 9.30am and 4.30pm. The … Read more

Humber, Coast and Vale success at 2019 HSJ Awards

Three Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership organisations were crowned winners at the 2019 Health Service Journal Awards in London last Wednesday (6th November). Humber Foundation Trust was crowned winner of the Mental Health Provider of the Year award, while Hull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) scooped the Community or Primary Care Service Redesign … Read more

Special delivery! New maternity website launches in Humber, Coast and Vale

A new website which serves as a comprehensive online guide to pregnancy, giving birth and beyond has launched in Humber, Coast and Vale. The Humber, Coast and Vale Local Maternity System has created a new website to support people who are thinking about having children, who are already pregnant or who have recently had a … Read more