Salford Together was delighted to welcome Jon Rouse, Chief Officer of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership last week to hear about work that has taken place in Salford to bring together health and social care, as well as future plans to reshape services and improve peoples lives. It was also an opportunity for Jon to meet some of the staff and teams working across the city and to discuss their experiences.
After the visit, Jon took to Twitter to publically recognise the work of Salford Together over the last five years and gave a ‘thumbs up’ to achievements including:
- the strength of our involvement with the voluntary sector through our relationship with Salford CVS
- resident engagement to understand the need of local communities
- work to reduce non-elective admissions into hospital
- the reduction in the number of falls through falls prevention and postural stability programme
- stabilisation of A&E attendances
- increasing standards in care home across the city
- the rigorous evaluation used to streamline sustainable new models of care with neighbourhood teams at their heart.
Summer tour took me to Salford yesterday. Five years into their journey as an integrated health & care system they are now rigorously evaluating all programmes to define streamlined sustainable model with neighbourhood teams at heart. 1/5
— Jon Rouse (@JonRouseGM) September 4, 2019
Salford are building on a great platform. Adjusting for population growth they report having delivered 7% reduction in non-elective admissions since 2015. Achieved by combining integrated urgent care, enhanced MDT care for most complex needs + neighbourhood leadership.
— Jon Rouse (@JonRouseGM) September 4, 2019
Salford model of care is characterised by strength of role of VCS and mixed clinical-social model that draws on multiple resources to help improve health & sense of wellbeing – art, gardening, debt reduction, housing improvements etc.
— Jon Rouse (@JonRouseGM) September 4, 2019
I really like the way Salford blend data analysis and direct resident engagement in understanding their communities and informing design of services. Example would be back pain service, taking radiography & physio into heart of communities (AHPs have key role in Salford model)
— Jon Rouse (@JonRouseGM) September 4, 2019
The results in Salford are clear – big reduction in falls last year, big increase in care home good & outstanding CQC ratings, confident primary care with PCNs fully aligned with neighbourhoods, reduced delayed discharges. 5/5
— Jon Rouse (@JonRouseGM) September 4, 2019