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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Partnership working: How Alliance for Better Care used the learnings from its extensive vaccination outreach programme to adapt its new health check provision and ensure equity for underserved communities?
Aim and IntroductionIn 2022 GP Federation, Alliance for Better Care (ABC), was asked by Surrey County Council Public Health to provide NHS health checks across East Surrey to priority populations.
The national programme offers an opportunity to engage with people aged 40-75 and identify those most at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes and dementia. ABC used this opportunity to build on their comprehensive work with vulnerable cohorts within East Surrey and ensure they had equal access to an NHS health check.
ABC’s Equity Programme works extensively with more than 30 partners in the area including local... Continue reading
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Embedding health and wellbeing opportunities for people experiencing homelessness in a wider support system.
Introduction
A collaborative project by the Plymouth Soup Run, The Plymouth Alliance and the University of Plymouth created a novel context and effective partnership of providers from the academic, statutory and voluntary sector to support people experiencing homelessness. Through Saturday morning sessions managed by representatives of the Soup Run and the Plymouth Alliance partners Shekinah and Plymouth Access to Housing (Path), and hosted by Shekinah, rough sleepers and people in emergency accommodation were able to come into a safe and calm space, have a cooked breakfast, a shower and change of clothes, meet health practitioners, get advice on housing issues... Continue reading
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NHS England
