Community health services: shifting the focus to out-of-hospital care

• What is good when it comes to community services? 
• How can we benchmark and share good practice? 

Speakers include:

• Dr Crystal Oldman, Chief Executive, Queen’s Nursing Institute
• Matthew Winn, Chief Executive, Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and Chair, NHS Confederation Community Health Services Forum
• Tom Gentry, ‎Head of Health Influencing, Age UK
• John Pope, Chief Executive, National Association of Primacy Care
• Lorraine Thomas, Director of Strategy and Transformation, Birmingham Community Healthcare.

• See how Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has set up a centre for people with mental health problems that acts as a hub for different NHS and other local government services, working in partnership to support the local community. 
• Discover some of the key lessons from five pilot sites about how they have embedded the Life Rooms model into discharge planning to integrate the patient pathway of care from inpatient to community services.  

Speakers include:

• Jane Holland, Head of Participation and Inclusion Development, Social Inclusion and Participation Team, The Life Rooms, Mersey Care NHS Trust
• Gary Thorpe, Head of Recovery Development, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

• Hear how the Mosaic Clubhouse in Brixton has been working with NHS and local government partners in Lambeth to support people with mental health problems in the community. 

Speakers include:

• Maresa Ness, Chief Executive, Mosaic Clubhouse 

Maresa will be joined by a Clubhouse member and service user (speaker to be announced soon).

• See how teams have worked across organisations in Bradford to develop a way for GPs, staff in the community and other health and social care professionals to refer patients from the Bradford district into intermediate care that gives patients support to stay in their own homes, rather than being admitted to hospital. 

• Hear how the hospital and community services in Torbay have created a model to enhance the care for heart failure patients, using specialist heart failure nurses. 

• Hear how the Primary Care Home model encourages staff in a local area to come together as a complete care community – drawn from GP surgeries, community, mental health and acute trusts, social care and the voluntary sector –  to focus on local population needs and provide care closer to patients’ homes. 

• Explore See & Treat care, being able to make direct referrals to community services, as well as working together in multidisciplinary teams - all with an emphasis on keeping patients out of hospital.  

• Learn about the Compassionate communities project, which involves communities in supporting people who are dying, and their carers; redressing the balance of care from professionals; and reigniting a culture where communities support people through dying and loss. 

• Hear how Buckinghamshire are focussing on building their integrated community teams, community hubs and GP clusters and piloting new ways of joining up health and social care closer to home as a priority as they develop their accountable care system (ACS). 

Speakers include:

• Lou Patten, Chief Officer Aylesbury and Chiltern CCGs and Lead, Buckinghamshire Accountable Care System 
• Carolyn Morrice, Chief Nurse, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.