We are proud to announce that the Nottingham City Place-Based Partnership (PBP) has won Integrated Care Initiative of the Year at the HSJ Awards 2025, recognising our innovative programme supporting people experiencing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage (SMD). This award is a powerful endorsement of our collaborative, place-based approach and the positive impact partners are having on the lives of some of Nottingham’s most disadvantaged residents.
People who experience SMD face extreme and long-standing health inequalities. Many encounter a cycle of crisis, decline and repeat service use, resulting in significant demand, resource pressures and workforce challenges across health and care systems.
Over the last five years, the PBP has brought together a wide and active collaboration of colleagues from across the system – including people with their own lived experience – to design, implement and deliver a sustainable, place-based model of support for people experiencing SMD.
Each year the SMD programme has been successful in stopping the revolving door of the same services spinning for hundreds of people, helping them to recover, sustain tenancies and rebuild their lives, reducing their reliance on emergency healthcare. The impact on health and care settings is also significant, with an average 75% reduction in hospital admissions and 65% reduction in A&E attendances for people receiving specialist support after three just months.
Thank you and huge congratulations to all our partners, especially those with their own living or lived experience of SMD, who are so integral to our programme. This work would not be possible without the hundreds of people across our SMD partnership who consistently go above and beyond every day to make a difference to people’s lives.
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People experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage have overlapping experiences of homelessness, problematic substance use, mental-ill health, domestic and sexual violence and/or abuse, and victimisation or offending.