From 8am today (Monday 9 April 2018), a designated telephone advice and triage line will be available for pregnant women to access advice and support from a midwife 24 hours day, 7 days a week. The line is available during pregnancy, labour and following the baby’s birth for women under the care of Royal [...]
Time is running out to apply for grant funding from Surrey County Council’s GP Technology Enabling Care Service (TECS) Innovation Grant Fund. In line with the ‘Innovation’ theme at the Surrey Heartlands Expo 2018 event, Surrey County Council and our CCG partners have issued a TECS (Technology Enabling Care Service (TECS) Innovation Grant Opportunity. [...]
The latest meeting of the Surrey Heartlands Stakeholder Reference Group saw lively and thoughtful discussion around the evening’s two main topics - understanding how social prescribing works across Surrey Heartlands and hearing more about our digital priorities. Surrey’s Deputy Director of Public Health Ruth Hutchinson and Charlotte Pavitt, Darzi Fellow and Public Health Registrar, [...]
A partnership event at Christ Church Woking has seen the launch of new GP Quality Markers for carer-friendly GP practices. The Markers are an NHS England development aimed at ensuring the health system is more supportive of carers. It is estimated that 6,000 people take on caring responsibilities every day; looking after a family [...]
Is someone you know struggling? See if they are eligible for extra support If you or someone you know seems to be struggling at home it could be time to find out if they can get the extra help they need. Or perhaps you or someone you know is looking after someone full-time and [...]
Hundreds of additional GP appointments were made available to patients by GP practices across Surrey Heartlands over the Easter weekend in response to the continuing impact of capacity pressures. Surrey Heartlands partners worked closely together, signposting appropriate services such as the extra GP appointments and other special measures put in place over the Easter [...]
The Surrey Heartlands Expo 2018 connected over 300 delegates from health, social care, academia and industry to look at how innovative technologies and services can further improve services for people in Surrey. The March event showcased some of the most creative collaborations and innovations, as well as proving an opportunity to plan how to [...]
Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership is one of the organisations included in the government announcement of £760 million of capital funding being allocated to the NHS to allow the acceleration of service modernisation and transformation. The Surrey Heartlands allocation was £500,000 which will be spent on refurbishing mental health facilities at the Abraham [...]
Hopefully by now the Beast From The East and its smaller siblings have done their worst and Spring is finally establishing itself. However, high demand for health services continues to take its toll and we are continuing to work as a system to ensure patients get the care they need, when they need it. [...]
It feels like there’s lots of great stuff happening across Surrey Heartlands; I was particularly pleased we were able to present our Academy model and approach to clinical engagement at the first national meeting of executive and clinical leads from STPs across the country. Anyone who knows me will understand my passion for making [...]
