Copy
View this email in your browser
March 2019

Welcome to our latest newsletter


We’ve been working hard to develop our health and care system in Surrey Heartlands and, with the new financial year, look forward to taking on additional responsibilities as we continue to mature as an Integrated Care System.  This means less dependency on our regulators (NHS England and NHS Improvement) and more autonomy in the way we lead and develop our health and care system. 
 
To support this, we have created a new executive leadership team to support the increasing responsibilities of system working, whilst ensuring organisational statutory functions are still met. I’m looking forward to working with the team as we move forward.  
 
We are also looking forward to working more closely with East Surrey partners – East Surrey CCG, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust and First Community Health and Care – from this month.  This makes sense from a strategic perspective given our close partnership with Surrey County Council and the expectation that Integrated Care Systems take more collective responsibility for improving health across local authority areas (see more below).
 
This month we were delighted to welcome NHS England Chair Lord David Prior to our Partnership Forum event – more below – as we brought together over 150 stakeholders to discuss how we can involve local people more, in particular in the development of our local Integrated Care Partnerships.
 
Finally, I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve been selected to take part in the new NHS Assembly, a national forum bringing together a range of people from across the health and care system in England.  Chaired by former head of the King’s Fund Professor Sir Chris Ham and leading GP Dr Claire Gerada, the new Assembly will act as a ‘guiding coalition’ to advise the boards of NHS England and NHS Improvement on implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan.
 
It will be important they hear experiences directly from local systems; and as a devolved system it is important for us to continue to champion the broader agenda of integration, including the wider determinants of health.  I feel colleagues from local authorities have been under represented in the Assembly membership, although I’m pleased to see a strong representation from colleagues specialising on learning disabilities and autism as well as the First Thousand Days.

With very best wishes,

Dr Claire Fuller, Senior Responsible Officer for Surrey Heartlands
A Lord and some scones …
 We were delighted to welcome NHS England Chair, Lord David Prior to our Partnership Forum earlier this month, together with over 150 guests to talk about how we can engage more people in the work of our Integrated Care Partnerships.  Fuelled by afternoon tea (and the odd scone or two), there was plenty of lively debate, lots of new introductions made and a raft of ideas to think about.
 
Read more
On the shortlist for another award
A joint project led by NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG and Royal Surrey County Hospital has been shortlisted for a Health Service Journal (HSJ) Value Award in the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation category.
 
Read more

Plans to work more closely with East Surrey partners
Following ongoing discussions with East Surrey partners – East Surrey CCG, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust and First Community Health and Care – we have all agreed that they will start working more closely with the Surrey Heartlands system from April. 

Read more

Surrey Heartlands stakeholder group helps shape new strategy
Participants at our latest stakeholder reference group had the opportunity to discuss the new draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Surrey.  Pictured: Surrey Heartlands system leader Dr Claire Fuller outlines the agenda for the stakeholder group.

Read more

Calling doctors back to general practice
NHS England has launched an exciting campaign to encourage hundreds of family doctors to come back to general practice.  It will raise the profile of a scheme that has already attracted almost 800 GPs into coming out of retirement, coming back to the profession after taking a break or moving back from overseas.

Read more
Children and Family Health Surrey launches Gypsy, Roma and Traveller health outreach programme
Children and Family Health Surrey (CFHS), launches a two year outreach programme to improve the health of local Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities from April. The project, which is the first Surrey-wide GRT health initiative, has been commissioned by Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care System (ICS).
 
Read more
Calling all healthcare workers – we want to know more!
Surrey Heartlands is working with Surrey Community Action to carry out research on the paid and unpaid health and care workforce in Surrey.  The aim is to better understand the size and shape of this workforce so that we can work together across all sectors to offer better care to Surrey's residents.
 
Read more
Co-designing a new wheelchair service for Surrey
Do you use wheelchair services in Surrey or know someone who does? Your local NHS is designing a new wheelchair service for children, young people and adults and we want your views.
Read more
Regional Shared Care Records partnership awards contract to provide new digital platform
Residents in the Thames Valley and Surrey region will be able to access their records and use digital services and apps that directly support them to manage their own health and wellbeing thanks to a new partnership between the Thames Valley Health and Care Records Partnership (TVS LHCR) and the System C & Graphnet Care Alliance.
Read more
Helping YOU go smoke free
The Stop Smoking Service in Surrey is changing. It is being re-branded as ONE YOU Surrey (Helping YOU to go smoke free) offering a mixture of direct delivery to patients and remote telephone support.
Read more
Keep an eye on expert opinion through our online blogs
Surrey Heartlands publishes a series of blogs on its website so that you can share the views of a range of experts on a variety of topics. You can find them all by clicking
here.
Latest news on Surrey Heartlands activity
The latest update on the work of Surrey Heartlands is now available on our website. To review Our Progress please click here.  
Your feedback
Please send us your feedback. If you want to share your ideas for improving services across Surrey Heartlands then we’d love to hear from you. Or if there’s more you’d like to see covered in our newsletter, please let us know: comms.surreyheartlands@nhs.net
Tweet
Forward

Contact us  comms.surreyheartlands@nhs.net
 

Published by Surrey Heartlands, a partnership of health and care organisations across Surrey.
© Surrey Heartlands, all rights reserved.
Surrey Heartlands and its partner organisations make every effort to ensure that the information in this newsletter is accurate and up-to-date. However, we cannot accept responsibility for any loss or inconvenience caused by reliance on inaccurate material contained here or on our website.  Links to other websites are provided for your convenience and do not imply endorsement by the partners within Surrey Heartlands. Thank you.







This email was sent to paul@pauluthompson.co.uk
why did I get this?    unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences
Surrey Heartlands · 58 Church Street · Weybridge, Surrey KT13 8DP · United Kingdom

Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp