Welcome to your latest news from the ESBT Alliance partners.
This month we celebrate the end of our 150-week ESBT programme which was set up
to kick-start the transformation of health and social care for East Sussex and
we continue with our alliance structure – working together ‘as if’ we are one
accountable care organisation.
To mark
our 150-week milestone we’ve made a new
video to chart some of our ESBT successes so
far, we hope you enjoy it!
This month, hear from our Eastbourne locality
link worker about how she's involving hard-to-reach groups in
local activities. Learn about our award-winning occupational
therapy (OT) clinics and our Crisis Response Team. And finally, join us as we
celebrate our volunteers and the contribution they make to the health and wellbeing of local
people in East Sussex.
“What was really striking was that we were the first ever
winners from a social services team in Kent, Surrey and Sussex...”
Linda Angell, Practice
Manager of the award-winning county-wide Occupational Therapy clinics, explains
how their move to a prevention model has allowed them to see more local people
and to keep older people safe in their own homes for longer.
With 98% of clients
reporting that they would recommend the clinic to a friend or family member, read the interview to find out how they’ve got it right.
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Ten months ago, the Crisis Response team was set up by
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust as part of the East Sussex Better Together
programme.
The service is made up of a team of Nurse Practitioners
with advanced skills, Healthcare Assistants, Occupational Therapists and night
sitters. It aims to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions by providing
urgent, high quality assessments and provision of community nursing care.
Discover how the service aims to prevent six hospital
admissions per day.
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“Locality link workers are a new idea, we’re the first
of our kind – so it’s ground-breaking work.”
We spoke to Eastbourne Locality link worker Julie
Tremlin to find out how she is working in an integrated way with local people
and the charity and voluntary sector to promote inclusion and support
residents' independence and wellbeing.
In her recent interview, Julie tells us about the different groups she works
with, the impact she hopes to have, and what success would mean to her in
Eastbourne.
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Recognising the role of
local volunteers in the wake of Volunteers’ Week, we say thank you to all those
who give their time to support the health and wellbeing of local people in East
Sussex.
Whether volunteers are
involved in patient transport, or if they run a carers group or a local drop-in
centre, we want to recognise the contribution they make to the wider community.
Within the ESBT programme
too, volunteers are changing lives. Read about our Community
Cancer Awareness Volunteers and Patient Participation Groups and discover
how you can get involved
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