Practical engagement and integration in Northamptonshire (2024)
The Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) are actively working to better understand, integrate with, and support the social care system. This case study demonstrates proactive and practical ways of boosting engagement between different parts of the system.
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Creating a central focus for recruitment and retention in the Black Country (2023)
Within the Black Country ICS, a positive programme of relationship-building has taken place over the past few years. This has been supported by social care providers being represented on the ICS People Board via ΢΢²ÝÊÓƵ’s locality manager.
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Moving beyond organisational boundaries in Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICS (2023)
Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICS is building an ICS Academy to support the health and social care workforce. Its targeted programme of education, learning and development will help them move towards their strategic objective of ‘one workforce’.
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Adapting plans and broadening the scope for engagement in Northamptonshire (2023)
Northamptonshire ICS have demonstrated good practice in their ongoing work to embrace the distinct insights of health and care partners and to identify opportunities to upskill the workforce. Their social care nursing placement programme has also proved very successful in establishing greater relationships between health and social care providers, and the wider community, throughout the region.
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Making workforce support as inclusive as possible for care providers in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (2023)
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICS have embraced the role of social care in workforce planning. This includes engagement with ΢΢²ÝÊÓƵ’s locality manager, who has worked in partnership with the ICS for a number of years, sitting on the People Board and a number of its subgroups.
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