Managing Director
Welcome
Welcome to our very first edition of Insight – the quarterly news digest from Transformation Partners in Health and Care (TPHC) for anyone interested in health and care transformation across England.
Insight will give you a snapshot of the transformation initiatives that make up the work we do at TPHC including our latest insights, resources, case studies and films, so you can see how our work makes a difference and how you can gain from our experiences.
This quarter, we are talking about achievements that I am particularly proud of including tackling racism and inequality in London’s midwifery workforce, government recognition of the Community Chest initiative, raising awareness of perinatal mental health, shining a light on World Aids Day with our Fast Track Cities work, and our Digital Productivity award win with North London Partners Shared Services.
If you would like to see how TPHC can work with your organisation to address health and care challenges, be they on a neighbourhood level, or a population level, please get in touch at: rf-tr.tphc-communication@nhs.net.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from myself and all my colleagues at TPHC.
TPHC Community Chest model highlighted in Department of Health and Social Care policy paper
We are delighted that Community Chests for social prescribing is one of 12 innovations backed by a new £42.6 million fund announced by the Department of Health and Social Care to accelerate reform of adult social care and highlighted in their latest policy paper.
The model, developed by TPHC in partnership with seven boroughs across North East London, brings together resources to create an accessible, local funding pot for the voluntary and community sector to support local activities that improve people’s health and wellbeing.
TPHC and its London partners have been developing Community Chests since 2022, leading to better integrated partnership working in local places, more sustainable social prescribing pathways and better health outcomes for those most impacted by health inequalities.
Supporting London’s Maternity Services
As part of the NHS, we work shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients to transform and improve services for both staff and the people who use NHS services. Nowhere is this truer than our support for the CapitalMidwife programme.
In 2022, following the publication of the Turning the Tide report, TPHC formed an advisory group of ethnic minority maternity leaders and worked with them to co-design and deliver two products to drive equity in London maternity services: a Fellowship, and an Anti-Racism Framework. Working alongside London’s Chief Midwife and her maternity team, we’ve been helping to create a working environment that ensures the diverse maternity workforce in London can thrive and progress.
Learn more about our award-winning work to improve maternity services.
When HIV communities lead: the role of peer support in redefining HIV care
The theme for World AIDS Day 2023 was ‘Let Communities Lead’. Gary Brough, a HIV campaigner and activist for over 25 years now working for our Fast Track Cities London programme, shared his thoughts on how a vital way of building confident communities who are capable of leading is empowerment through peer support.
On a personal level, Gary credited peer support in keeping him alive long enough through the 1990’s to be able to access effective HIV medication in 1996. Gary would later become the UK’s first paid HIV Patient Representative in the NHS.
Read more from Gary on how peer support can redefine HIV care.
Collaborative working to pilot social care technology
Local authorities are experiencing ever increasing financial pressures, with growing need leading to increased demand for their services at the same time as inflation hits their budgets.
TPHC supported North Central London ICB and the five north London borough councils to work together to trial new solutions and ways of working to improve social care, that will be benefit residents and reduce pressures on local authority budgets.
By making best use of the scale provided by integrated care systems, social care technology can be piloted and implemented without the risks for boroughs of going it alone.
Learn more about how collaborative working at scale can help address these challenges in our blog.
Perinatal Mental Health Podcasts
The Perinatal Mental Health Team have created a miniseries of podcasts focussing on different areas of perinatal mental health; from the perspective of specialist midwives, healthcare professionals, lived experience practitioners, women/birthing people, and partners.
Each episode focuses on a different element of perinatal mental health and how it can affect women/birthing people and their families as well as exploring the signs and symptoms, many of which are not always obvious to recognise and understand. In each episode, we speak with inspiring mothers who have navigated trauma, mental health challenges and experiences they never imagined prior to having their babies.
Innovations to speed up NHS recruitment
Our TPHC digital productivity team, working in partnership with North London Shared Services (NLPSS), has developed an onboarding process for new staff which is faster, easier and more reliable – thanks to smart technology.
The new process is saving 2,500+ hours of inputting time (1.5 whole time posts) each year, and 80%+ of successful applicants now take 3 working days to submit their new starter forms – down from 11 days before.
Our work was recognised at the HPMA Excellence in People Awards 2023, where TPHC’s Digital Productivity team, along with NLPSS, won the award for smarter working.
Learn more about this award-winning digital productivity work here.
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