Humber, Coast and Vale health and care partners unite to further support vulnerable children and young people with their emotional wellbeing

Children and young people with complex needs across Humber, Coast and Vale will benefit from enhanced services following the successful award of funding over the next three years to provide additional services for children and young people with high risk and high vulnerability. The Youth Justice Framework for Integrated Care aims to build trauma-informed care … Read more

Local groups invited to apply to fund schemes that improve mental and physical wellbeing

Community and local groups have until 26th November to apply for grants that fund projects that can be shown to improve people’s mental and physical wellbeing through outdoors activities and in nature. Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership (Integrated Care System) has secured funding to develop a ‘test and learn’ site for Green … Read more

Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership appoints Sue Symington as Designate Integrated Care System Chair

Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership is pleased to announce it has appointed Sue Symington as its Designate Integrated Care System (ICS) Chair. Each of England’s 42 integrated care systems (ICSs) are required to appoint a Chair and a Chief Executive as part of the guidance issued to help embed ICSs in legislation … Read more

Sunday, 10th October was World Mental Health Day 2021. This year, the occasion took ‘mental health in an unequal world’ as its theme. Anyone working in a health or care setting over the last 18 months will know that the pandemic has brought even greater imbalance to an already unequal world

Our Resilience Hub was set up as a direct response to the pandemic, to try to redress that imbalance, supporting health and care sector staff and their families. Although many of those who have accessed the service are struggling with the direct impact of Covid-19, others turn to the Resilience Hub in times of bereavement, … Read more

New diagnostics capacity to boost access to care in Humber, Coast and Vale

People living in Humber, Coast and Vale are set to benefit from earlier diagnostic tests, provided closer to home thanks to investment in new mobile MRI and CT scanning facilities. The Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership (Integrated Care System) has secured an £8.6million share of a £350million national pot, announced by the … Read more

Making a commitment to grow and train our workforce, Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership sees the Learning Environments Assessments and Placements (LEAP) programmes first projects get underway.

Approved earlier this year with a £1.4million investment from Health Education England, the LEAP strategy aims to grow and train our people, working together differently to transform the way we deliver local, regional and national workforce priorities promoting a supportive education culture for the entire workforce. The vision is to create a healthier Humber, Coast … Read more

Humber, Coast and Vale Cancer Alliance is working with its partners to pilot new primary care Breast Pain Clinics, following an increase in the number of two-week wait referrals for suspected breast cancer

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and, as we continue to work with our partners to highlight the early signs of cancer through our Cancer Champion programme and other initiatives such as the NHS Help Us Help You campaign, we are pleased to have seen the number of urgent breast cancer referrals rise since the … Read more

Vaccine hesitancy in pregnant women Despite national guidance, there is still a lot of vaccine hesitancy amongst pregnant women.  The Ask a Midwife service has seen an increasing number of messages come in from expectant mums, their partners, family and friends seeking advice and to gain reassurance that the vaccine is absolutely safe for them … Read more

Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership becomes the first Integrated Care Partnership to commit to Levelling Up, to directly tackle health inequalities for our local communities

I am delighted to announce that Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership has become the first integrated care system to commit to producing a Levelling Up Impact Report to measure its impact against the UK Government’s Levelling Up Goals. The Levelling Up Goals, formed in 2020, are chaired by Rt Hon Justine Greening, … Read more