Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System (ICS)
We work closely with organisations across health and care as part of an Integrated Care System to meet the needs of everyone in Warwickshire.
Providing good health care is only one way to improve people’s health and wellbeing. Working together in an Integrated Care System enables us to address the other factors that might affect people’s health such as housing, education and access to jobs. It also supports us to tackle the inequalities people face in accessing services, their experience of services and the outcomes of care.
Together we are doing everything in our power to enable people across Warwickshire to pursue happy, healthy lives and put our communities at the heart of everything we do.
Better, joined up, health and care systems mean improved, more easily accessible services for our local population and better outcomes for everyone.
Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System - Happy Healthy Lives
South Warwickshire Place
In South Warwickshire, local government, the NHS and voluntary sector are working closely together to support the unique needs of our local communities. We are one of the organisations involved in this approach to partnership working, which is often referred to as South Warwickshire Place.
This way of working between organisations and their local NHS services is something that is happening across the country.
South Warwickshire Place Partnership's vision and priorities
South Warwickshire has vibrant communities at its heart, working together to ensure everyone is supported to live well and have safe and fully active lives. This will be done by prioritising prevenion and improving health outcomes by targeting groups at risk of inequality.
Using the latest data and insight, combined with feedback from partners, South Warwickshire Place has an overarching vision and has identified three cross-cutting priorities to help achieve it.
Mental health and wellbeing
Demand for mental health and wellbeing services is increasing and there is more opportunity to increase access within communities.
Climate change
The climate is changing and having an impact on health and wellbeing and demand for services. Spikes in hot, cold and wet weather are likely to continue.
Cost of living
The cost of living pressures are an immediate risk to health and wellbeing outcomes where households do not have enough money.
Delivering against priorities
To help South Warwickshire Place deliver against their priorities, partners are committing to delivery in three areas.
Work together
- Commit to working collaboratively and eliminating organisational barriers
- Support innovation and drive continuous improvement
- Have clear ambitions and priorities
Support communities
- Be driven by the needs of our communities
- Take a co-production approach
- Provide clear, coordinated messages to our populations
Prioritise prevention
- Target activity to groups at risk of inequality
- Make decisions based on evidence and data
- Use resources efficiently to improve outcomes
Projects
To help deliver against these priorities partners within South Warwickshire Place are working on a number of projects including:
- Piloting home efficiency grants for selected patients with long-term conditions in Leamington, Stratford and Dene and Stour
- Identifying prevention opportunities from a new dedicated health role within Warwick District Council's housing department.
- Improving respiratory health in Lillington through engagement and development of smoking cessation and local healthy lifestyle services.
- Promoting mental health and community resilience across South Warwickshire.
- Building a partnership approach to developing community services, such as the new Lillington Health Hub.
- Delivery and evaluation of a Voluntary and Comunnity Sector Innovation Fund to support all-age carers.
- Supporting young people's mental health through piloting new Care Co-ordination roles in targeted communities to support a preventative approach.
- Developing partnership approaches to supporting frail elderly residents, particularly rural areas.
- Supporting the devolution of more decisions related to health and care down to the South Warwickshire level and developing community engagement in the South Warwickshire Place Partnership.
- Scoping further opportunities to support our climate change priority.