Integrated Care in Action week is an opportunity to highlight the benefits of bringing together health and social care services.
During this year’s event, we showcased a range of integrated care initiatives alongside examples of best practice and learning from Salford’s journey toward’s providing a fully integrated health and care system.
Day 1: Monday 9 March
Today marks the start of Integrated Care in Action week, an opportunity to showcase Salford’s journey to providing a fully integrated health and care system.
Salford Together is a partnership of organisations that have joined forces to transform the health and care system, ensuring that local people have access to coordinated services that can enable them to live healthier lives and get the care and treatment they need, in the right place at the right time.
Find out more in this short film…⤵️
Day 2: Tuesday 10 March
Salford’s journey to provide a fully integrated care system began in 2014 and focused on bringing together older people’s services. The successes and challenges of this were reviewed and used to underpin the development of an Integrated Care Organisation bringing together more than 2000 health and social care staff.
This infographic outlines successes and milestones from some of our service transformation work, including:
- Urgent Care Team
- Enhanced Care team
- Enhanced Carers Support Service
- Centre of Contact
- specialist Housing Officer
- specialist Mental Health support
The Enhanced Carer Support Service is one of the innovative # projects in Salford. Its aim is to identify and support unpaid carers.
Read how the team supported Irene and Roy…
▶️ https://t.co/IMOB7u3V4M pic.twitter.com/X8obgflKoD— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 10, 2020
Day 3: Wednesday 11 March
Our # team working in the Irlam &Cadishead neighbourhood are working with local organisations to tackle some of the effects of social isolation in the area.
Hear from some of the team involved in this short film…
▶️ https://t.co/flb5EJXWUR— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 11, 2020
Over the coming months, our health and social care staff will collaborate on a new approach to health, social care and wellbeing, called ‘Community Led Support’ (CLS).
Our first CLS site will be Walkden & Little Hulton over the sumemr months. pic.twitter.com/a6CGrVLYPr
— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 11, 2020
Day 4: Thursday 12 March
Our colleagues from @HWSalford are working closely with us to collect stories from people who have received care, treatment & support from one of our # services.
Find out more on the ‘Case Studies’ section of our website… ▶️https://t.co/mrnmfYak6w pic.twitter.com/FrEfb3j216
— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 12, 2020
In this @TEDx video, @CormacRussell suggests we need to help people discover the gifts they already have.
This underpins our work to embed a ‘strengths-based’ approach across Salford’s health and social care # system. https://t.co/iB7sU5i6Ox
— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 12, 2020
We talk a lot about improving health & social care by providing # – but what does it mean?
This article from @TheKingsFund looks in-depth at work taking place across the country as well as the evidence driving change… ▶️https://t.co/DXzDqqhbhk
— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 12, 2020
Day 5: Friday 13 March
Our integrated neighbourhood teams have health and social care staff co-located in the same offices allowing them to work more closely together providing more personalised #.
Find out more in this short film…
▶️ https://t.co/GLJZKWbmTv— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 13, 2020
Our The Urgent Care Team provides an urgent community response to safely support people in their own homes.
It connects in with the wider # system to also support safe discharge from hospital.
Find out how more…https://t.co/U1ZYtryx69
— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 13, 2020
Our shared vision for providing # in neighbourhoods has been developed through close engagement with our workforce.
As part of a recent event these visual minutes were produced to illustrate how integrated care is working. pic.twitter.com/f0MTjQVc1q
— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 13, 2020
Day 6: Saturday 14 March
Our neighbourhood # teams are working closely with @RHSBridgewater to provide pro-active care & support via a pioneering social prescribing project, exploring the therapeutic benefits of gardening & green space.
Find out morehttps://t.co/KnHVLBDJ3O
— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 14, 2020
How do health and care teams in Salford work together to meet people’s needs?
Read Marion’s story on how the # teams supported her to ensure she could continue living in her own home: https://t.co/zM5BdRDofO pic.twitter.com/CRSY3wGP5P
— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 14, 2020
Day 7: Sunday 15 March
Health is about so much more than just not being ill, it’s about our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing and there are many other factors that can affect our health and how we feel.
Find out morein this great little video from @TheKingsFund
▶️ https://t.co/buSBW83ntr— Salford Together (@SalfordTogether) March 15, 2020
Listening to people’s experience of using or providing integrated care services in Salford lets us know how we’re doing and is a crucial part of making sure we’re on the right track.
A positive experience can mean we’re getting it right. But when people have had a less-than-great experience, the things they tell us are used to make tweaks and changes for the future.
Find out some of the things that people have said in this infographic. ▶