Really inspiring evening watching @sixinchessoil with @grow_outside & a packed house at Infinite Wellbeing in Heanor tonight. 🪱🌱🪱🌱🪱🌱. Beautiful storytelling can be such a powerful way of sparking curiosity & opening up new conversations 🎬🎬✨✨🙏🙏
We are exploring Field Building as a way of connecting place-based work to a broader coalition of communities tackling similar challenges to amplify their collective voice and influence. Read our blog about why Field Building https://t.co/QRfdQSiSYt
One of many highlights from last week was visiting #Hartington community for their rural health session. The village hall was packed with locals learning how to access support. A great demo of #communitypower@DCCPublicHealth
⭐️7 Highlights from #CompleteCareCommunities⭐️
1) @TaraHumphreyy facilitating our introductions & learning what matters to each other.
The richness in coming together is all about relationships.
And sometimes we need a bit of help/ permission. Creative & fun.
❤️My fav 45 mins!
So excited to reveal that this week @RobSissons1 from @bbcemt came to see a Derby Health Inequalities Partnership project we've been working on with @NHSDDICB, which is a community-led drive to tackle high blood pressure. Will be on TV @ 6:30pm tonight!
🔗https://t.co/ifv2nS5A3S
"To bring about system change you need time & capacity to think deeply & look outwards, otherwise it’s like trying to redesign a bike while you’re still riding it."
@Vibrant_Socks on transformation, leadership & East Ayrshire’s pioneering approach 🌟
https://t.co/QccOsi7DMg
#completecarecommunities national symposium begins. @TaraHumphreyy breaks the ice to begin the most important exercise…. Networking and sharing experience
"shift the focus from treating illness to promoting health and wellbeing, reducing inequalities and tackling the wider determinants of health, and supporting the public to be active partners in their own health." #health https://t.co/RyNVOfJ97M
Increasing poverty, COVID, cost of living are driving up need for: child services, adult social care, homelessness and special educational needs and disability. Council budgets have been cut by 40% - the greater the deprivation the steeper the cut. https://t.co/S1Qorb4dL7
I have just finished another set of incredibly difficult weekend nights as the A&E consultant incharge.
Some thoughts:
The NHS no longer provides unscheduled care - we provide treatment. Care is with dignity - that's impossible for our patients in corridors.
The model of acute care is not working or sustainable. We need a completely different approach - with long term investment in prevention and community care
111 need to change risk thresholds as far too many come to a&e when they don't need to.
There needs to be alternative pathways to get care overnight for those who don't have accidents or emergencies. A&E shouldn't be anything and everything
Staff are broke - supporting staff is just as vital as looking after patients
This government have totally decimated our the NHS. They are the ones who should be apologising to our patients not our staff.
Hundreds are dying each week because of lack of hospital capacity and corridor care in a&e, yet it's not on the news and no public uproar. As staff and patients we have accepted the unacceptable.
Everyone needs to know the reality of what is happening - so that politicians offer a different solution and patients get the care they deserve. Sadly most of the public have no idea of what is genuinely going on.
And finally, a post night fry up is the best antidote for the stresses of the weekend. Goodnight!
Children growing up in disadvantage are more likely to experience ill health. @rukshanakapasi, Director of Health at @barnardos, explains how three ICSs are trialling ways of doing things to improve outcomes for children and young people. #KFTimeForAction https://t.co/8bpisgv01i
Renewed purpose after spending the day in Birmingham at the Regional Health Inequalities conference. Nice to present some Derbyshire work on community led insight too #healthinequalities@NHSEngland