South Notts PBP Board report – Population Health and Place Development Support Programme

South Notts PBP has taken part in a national programme called ‘Population Health and Place Development Support Programme’ which started at the beginning of 2022.
The programme is voluntary, locally-led and nationally-supported, providing practical support to accelerate and embed adoption of Population Health Management across Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), building on existing efforts and tailored to local needs.
The programme is made up of four modules:

  • Ambition, Vision & Leadership (complete)
  • Governance, Functions and Finance (complete)
  • Population Health Management (PHM) and Integrated Transformation (two further sessions)
  • Digital, Data and Analytics (to formally start in September 2022)

Colleagues from the PBP have taken part in workshops for the first three modules, with the digital, data and analytic module due to start formally in September. These structure sessions have really given our place-based partnership the foundation and tools to develop our PHM plans.
The Board members and others who have participated in the programme attended a session on Thursday 21 July to bring the learning from the four modules together and agree the next steps for the PBP’s development. With a focus on the right leadership and asset-based approach, we believe we can drive innovation and patient-centred integrated care.
We also formally said goodbye to our Convenor, Notts Healthcare Chief Executive John Brewin, and one of our clinical leads Dr Tim Heywood, who are both retiring from the NHS later this summer.

South Notts PBP Clinical Lead Dr Nicole Atkinson thanked John for his leadership saying: “Thank you for your support and your belief in the concept of South Notts place and putting your shoulder behind this to get it moving. Your contribution has been invaluable and ensured that we have set off on the right track.”

Nicole also paid tribute to long-time colleague and fellow Nottingham West GP Dr Tim Heywood saying: “Thank you, you have made an outstanding contribution and will be sadly missed. I will miss your humour, your words of wisdom and your many, many ideas for change. You have been such an important figure in our partnership, driving change and championing patient and community involvement. Thank you for everything.”

We’re also delighted to announce that Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Chair Paul Devlin will be taking over from John and we know that he will provide our PBP with outstanding leadership. Paul said: “I’m excited to take over from John and help develop the South Nottinghamshire Place-Based Partnership and raise its profile in the system. I’m impressed with the energy and commitment across the partnership and if we can harness it then I think we can make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of local people.

“There has been some excellent work done so far, with new innovative ways of working being developed and a real commitment to involving our local communities. I can’t wait to get started.”

Diabetes support group works wonders for local residents

Sally Smith was diagnosed with Diabetes in 2018 and says her health really started improving once she joined her local self-help group.

At the latest meeting on Tuesday 26 July at Chilwell Olympia, Sally was one of 18 Broxtowe residents living with diabetes discussing whether the group had made a positive difference. The resounding answer from the room was yes!

Since March 2022, between 15-40 people have been meeting regularly to chat, ask questions and share advice. Self-help and peer-to-peer groups are proven to be an effective way for people living with long-term conditions or specific needs to better manage their own care, maintain independence and improve wellbeing.

Karen Richardson, a Specialist Diabetes Nurse at Primary Integrated Community Services (PICS), and Gareth Dixon, PICS Health and Wellbeing Coach, set up the group. Both Karen and Gareth work across the Nottingham West Primary Care Network.

The aim is that people with lived experiences of diabetes could be more involved in their own care by gaining knowledge from each other and building confidence. They have organised and hosted regular meetings and run workshops and wellbeing sessions.

GP surgeries refer people who have diabetes to the group, or anyone can join in – there are flyers posted on community notice boards and on the internet.

Gareth highlighted how empowering the group is for participants: “We’re actually meeting in August to plan how to move forward, and I’m really excited that members are talking about running the group themselves. That just really shows how worthwhile it is for healthcare professionals to use our networks to set up new groups.

Sally Smith, 67 from Beeston, explains in this three minute video how her GP surgery helped her get involved and the difference it’s made to her: https://youtu.be/vOecPYQ7neY

Picture of Diabetes self help group
Pictured left to right are: Gareth Dixon, Health and Wellbeing Coach at PICS,  Dave Johnson,73 from Beeston, Ray Berrington, 68 from Attenborough, Sally Smith, 67 from Beeston, Anne Jowett, 56 from Attenborough, Tariq’ Hyatt-Butt, 54 from Beeston, Karen Richardson, Diabetes Specialist Nurse at PICS, and Richard Nicholson, 71. 

Mental health and dementia key issues at third Broxtowe Together event

The third in the series of Broxtowe Together events took place on Thursday 14 July on Zoom. It was attended by 71 people who live or work across the Nottingham West Primary Care Network area and was a very positive event which showcased all the work done in Broxtowe across the community in the last 12 months. There was even a video presentation from local actress and Line of Duty star Vicky McClure!

After the presentations, attendees were put into smaller breakout rooms which focused on young people and mental health in the first session and dementia in the second session.

There were lots of fantastic observations and innovative ideas for change, so look out for more information in upcoming edition of South Notts PBP news.

We also said a sad goodbye to Nottingham West Clinical Director Tim Heywood, who is retiring from the NHS in September 2022. Tim said: “The two and a half years I have been Clinical Director have been exciting, humbling and completely changed my perception of what a care service can be. The people I have met, the enthusiasm, the skills, the drive and compassion they have to look after citizens in a way that I believe is the correct way is incredible. I will miss it greatly.”

You can see the full event here: https://youtu.be/FLAgN5t9Auk

South Notts Community Voices event – young people

As a Place-Based Partnership, we’re really keen to hear what’s important to young people to help them keep healthy and well so we worked with our District and Borough Youth Council members to design an event for young people.

So on Saturday 2 July we held our very first Community Voices engagement event for young people at Nottingham Arena, with all the young people who joined us to share their views being treated to an ice skating session with their parents at the close of the event.

Pictures of young people at the Community Voices event
Some of the young people who joined us at our Community Voices event at Nottingham Arena

It was a really fun, action-packed morning with lots of discussion about what the young people loved about the area they live in terms of health and wellbeing opportunities (tops) and what they didn’t like (pants). You can see the washing line of feedback in the pictures above.

We also talked about how they keep healthy and mentally well and what support needed to be available. Finally they had to draw their ideal place (blindfolded!) which certainly made for some interesting presentations.

Look out for the more, including feedback and evaluation in an upcoming newsletter.