Health & Wellbeing News, Events & Opportunities – July 2023

July 6, 2023

Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for July 23. This page will be updated regularly, so we are delighted you have landed here today and hope that you will keep coming back for updates during the month.

Lots of the News, Events and Opportunities information will also be appearing in our regular Health and Wellbeing Bulletin. This Bulletin is sent out to all current members of our two Networks: Action for Health and the Mental Health Provider Forum. If you have found this page useful why not join either or both Networks by following these links:

Action for Health

Mental Health Provider Forum

News – we will be using this as an opportunity to pick out particularly important/interesting articles from our most recent Bulletin and/or highlighting information that might be time sensitive.

Events – we will be using this as an opportunity to highlight events of interest to organisations interested in health and care issues including Network events. Most of these will be local Cumbria events but some maybe regional.

Opportunities – we will be using this to highlight health and care focused funding and project opportunities, representative roles and working groups you might want to get involved in and much more. These will focus on Cumbria but may also include regional opportunities.

If you’ve seen something you think we should be sharing, let us know! Email us:

Clare Edwards claree@cumbriacvs.org.uk Holly Ferguson hollyf@cumbriacvs.org.uk

WESTMORLAND & FURNESS COUNCIL area – Expansion of Community Catalysts project

A new free development programme has launched to help people set up working for themselves offering care and support to older and disabled people locally.

You could offer any kind of help at home such as: cleaning, cooking, shopping, trips out, support to dress and wash, DIY, gardening and more.

The programme is coordinated by Community Catalysts in partnership with Westmorland and Furness Council; and supports people to make sure their care and support business is set up safely, legally and sustainably.

Leave your details at Community Catalysts’ website and your local catalysts Jade and Hannah will be in touch for a chat to tell you more.

Find the project on Facebook

 

COUNTYWIDE – Keep up to date with all the NEWS about our 2 new councils  

Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) – Delivering two new councils for Cumbria

Links to the new Council websites can be found here:

Both councils have agreed their Council Plans for their first four years of operation. You can read them here: Council plan | Cumberland Council and Council plan | Westmorland and Furness Council

Want to know more about LGR & the third sector?

If you want some more explanations from a third sector perspective why not try Cumbria CVS website page dedicated to all things LGR

https://cumbriacvs.org.uk/local-government-reorganisation/

 

NORTH CUMBRIA NHS area – Action for Health meeting 15/08/2023 10.30am – 12 noon (Online)

Come and join our lively and informative Action for Health event.

To date we have confirmation of the following speakers who will be joining us:

  • Louise Parker – British Liver Trust, providing Information on the current UK liver disease crisis and how the sector can raise awareness.
  • Sarah Marrison – Eating Distress North East, discussing the Launch of EDNE’s Eating Distress Learning Community (North East & North Cumbria)

To book a place please follow the Eventbrite link:

Click here to book your place

 

NORTH CUMBRIA NHS area – Community Mental Health Transformation Conference October 2023

10th October 2023 Mental Health Day 9.30am-4.30pm People First, Carlisle

This World Mental Health Day celebrate the work that has been undertaken as part of Community Mental Health Transformation in North Cumbria.

Discuss with colleagues from across the system how we can meet the challenges facing us to ensure that we deliver sustainable community based solutions to support the mental health needs of our population.

A wide range of speakers and workshop to showcase the amazing work being undertaken in our region and promote discussion as well as generating ideas on how we move forward.

To sign up visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/673601890387

NORTH CUMBRIA NHS area – IMPORTANT have your say about 3 key health strategies/documents for North East & North Cumbria

There are a number of consultations taking place across the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) this month, with opportunities to feedback both individually and collectively.

Consultations are taking place on:

  • Draft Joint Forward Plan
  • Draft People and Culture Strategy
  • Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Joint Forward Plan

Joint Forward Plan

Since the publication of the Integrated Care Strategy, ‘Better Health and Wellbeing for All’, in December 2022, the ICB has been working closely with partner organisations to produce the Joint Forward Plan.

They have engaged with system partners to create the Integrated Care Strategy, and are seeking feedback and views on the Joint Forward Plan to deliver the ambitions agreed.

You can view the draft plan here and feedback and comments are welcome by email no later than 31 August 2023. The contact email for providing feedback is necsu.icbplanning@nhs.net

VONNE’s Health and Wellbeing Programme Director, Lisa Taylor, will be hosting a Joint Forward Plan feedback session on Monday, 21st August 2023, 2:00pm – 3:00pm to facilitate a collective VCSE sector response to the draft plan.

Register to attend the Joint Forward Plan feedback session

DRAFT People and Culture Plan

The Integrated Care System has been developing a People and Culture Plan to address the workforce challenges across the System. We shared an early draft and collated some feedback from the sector to help develop the plan further.

Following a workforce summit event in early June, a revised draft of the plan has been produced and can be viewed here. Workforce leaders are now inviting further feedback on this revised draft.

Any feedback should be sent via email to necsu.ics_workforce@nhs.net by close of play Friday, 11th August 2023. Please feel free to pass this on to anyone who you feel would like to have the opportunity to feedback on the draft plan.

Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Joint Forward Plan: Feedback on draft plans

The ICB have given us permission to share the below documentation with you. These documents are more detailed draft plans of elements which have arisen from the MHLDA Joint Forward plan.

Please share your views on any of the policies which you wish to comment on by responding to this survey. We will collate the views you have given us and will deliver this to the Director of Transformation Learning Disabilities, Autism and Mental Health at the NENC ICB.

The deadline for feedback is Wednesday, 9th August 2023 at 12 noon.

Documents:

NORTH CUMBRIA NHS area – Health Partnerships Support Officer

Cumbria CVS are recruiting for a Health Partnerships Support Officer, to support the Health Partnerships Manager to deliver an effective package of coproduced health initiatives across North Cumbria.

Including the support and advocacy of the third sector and network organisations involved in the health and care field, as well as promoting collaboration between those organisations and statutory health and care providers.

Fixed Term March 2025

£ 28,227 (pro rata)

22 hours per week

Primary location – Cumbria CVS Head Offices, Shaddongate, Carlisle (Although we offer a hybrid working approach)

For more information please click here

 

NORTH CUMBRIA NHS area – Women’s Health Conference October 2023

In August 2022, the first ever Women’s Health Strategy for England was published, marking a reset in the way in which the government looks at women’s health.  The strategy sets out the national 10-year ambitions for boosting the health and wellbeing of women and girls, and for improving how the health and care system engages and listens to all women and girls.

The North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System and the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities are co-hosting a Women’s Health Conference in the North East on Thursday 19th October 2023.

Part of the conference aim is to:

  • Celebrate and showcase work from across the region in line with the national women’s health strategy published last year

The organizers are looking for people/organisations to submit ideas for presentations. Click here to open form to apply.