Call for evidence - inclusion health
NHS England’s National Healthcare Inequalities and Improvement Programme is collaborating with teams across the NHS and wider partners to develop a framework for NHS action on inclusion health, which will distil best practice and clarify role expectations on this agenda.
The framework is intended to support leaders in national and regional teams as well as local systems to identify specific priority actions to tackle health inequalities faced by inclusion health groups. It will help to contextualise the agenda within current NHS priorities and provide greater clarity of roles and responsibilities across the NHS and with partners, to promote partnership working between agencies. The aim is to publish the framework in September 2023.
The framework will focus on inclusion health groups. Inclusion health includes any population group that is socially excluded. This can include people who experience homelessness, drug and alcohol dependence, vulnerable migrants, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, sex workers, people in contact with the justice system and victims of modern slavery, but can also include other socially excluded groups.
Read the draft inclusion health principles which have been informed by a series of engagement activities and a literature review.
Platform now closed for submissions:
Thank you so much for your case studies and contributions. We have now closed the platform for new submissions. If you have case studies you would like to share please email scwcsu.healthimpandineq@nhs.net.
Case Studies
To submit your case study, you will be asked to create a public screen name and share your email address with the NHS. If we require any further information, we will contact you via email. Please be aware this is a public platform and your submission will be viewable by those who have access to this link.
Please link your case study to one or more of the frameworks five inclusion health draft principles:
1) Commit to action on inclusion health
2) Understand the characteristics and needs of inclusion health groups locally
3) Develop the workforce for inclusion health
4) Developing integrated and accessible services for inclusion health
5) Demonstrate impact and improvement for inclusion health
When submitting your case study please answer the following questions:
1) Permission: Do you give permission from the individual/group to share this case study? Please ensure submissions are anonymised.
2) Permission: Do you have permission from your organisation to share this case study? Do you have permission from any partner organisations also named to share this case study?
3) Permission: Do you give permission for NHSE to share this case study and publish it as part of the framework?
4) Logo: Would you like to share your logo for use? If yes, do you give permission for it to be published with your case study in the framework?
5) Organisation/s: What organisation/s were involved?
6) The challenge: What was the issue you were trying to solve? Include which Inclusion Health Group the initiative focused on and its level i.e. community/locality/system
7) The approach/solution: What did you do? What help did you receive? How did you go about delivery?
8) Insights and impacts: What evidence proves it worked? What difference it makes to the Inclusion Health Groups? How did this improve experiences, access and inclusion? How did this improve their health and help address health inequalities?
9) What people said: Any quotes or feedback from service users, staff, management or decision makers
10) Tips for success: Approaches or links that make a difference or lessons learned.
11) What next: What are you doing next?
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Doctors of the World's Safe Surgeries initiative: supporting GP practices to improve access to primary care
Developing integrated and accessible services for inclusion health
Primary care is open to all, but often many people in inclusion health groups, including people without a fixed address, people seeking asylum and refugees, are wrongly refused access to the primary services they are entitled to. NHS England guidance on GP registration is clear: regardless of nationality or immigration status, everyone living in England can register and consult with a GP without charge. There is no regulatory requirement to prove identity or address in order to register and an NHS number is not required (1).
An investigation by the Bureau of... Continue reading
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A holistic approach to wellbeing: Greener on the Outside for Prisons (GOOP)
Greener on the Outside of Prisons (GOOP)
Spectrum Community Health CIC is proud to support the development and implementation of GOOP (Greener on the Outside for Prisons) projects across several prison sites where we currently provide healthcare services.
What is GOOP?
GOOP is a health and wellbeing programme which runs in several prisons across the UK and is designed to improve the health and wellbeing of patients by involving them with a range of environmental activities, including gardening. Research has shown that gardening, horticulture and outdoor activities have real therapeutic benefits for mental health.
Working with HMPPS and raft of... Continue reading
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WY-FI+ Inclusive Health Service: supporting inclusion for homeless adults
Service context
The Inclusive Healthcare Service was introduced in Wakefield in 2021 to provide urgent support for homeless adults and rough sleepers during the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, homelessness in Wakefield had surged by a third and the local authority needed a nurse-led outreach project to engage with homeless people in safe areas (eg. in hostels, churches) guiding them to health and housing support and reducing pressure on A & E departments.
In October 2022, this provision was incorporated into WY-FI+ - a new service funded through the NHS Core20PLUS5 initiative to improve outcomes for vulnerable adults.
A need... Continue reading
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RECONNECT North East: working in partnership to reduce reoffending and improve outcomes for prison-leavers
Context
Introduced in 2019, RECONNECT is a Care Navigation service which provides support for adults with health and wellbeing needs both before and after their release from prison. RECONNECT supports service users for up to three months pre-release and up to six months post release, helping them plan for release and make links with important services such as GP practices, mental health services, drug and alcohol services and probation.
Across the North East Prisons, RECONNECT is led by the Reconnected to Health partnership of four organisations:
- Spectrum Community Health CIC
- Rethink Mental Illness
- Tees, Esk and Wear Valley (TEWV) NHS... Continue reading
Who's Listening
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NHS England
