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Representatives from our networks attended the Greater Manchester Primary Care Summit this month.
The event was jointly hosted by the Greater Manchester Primary Care Provider Board, one of the first primary care collaboratives in England, and NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care, bringing together the four primary care disciplines of community pharmacy, dentistry, general practice and optometry.
Delegates had the opportunity to hear directly from national and Greater Manchester system leaders on the future of the sector and the wider strategic direction.
A key theme on the day was that primary care is an integral part of the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care System and will be key to the delivery of its vision for health and care. An agreed principle was to engage with the wider system.
The SCNs were represented at the event by Gill Bailey from our Palliative and End of Life Care Network and Krista Williams from the Diabetes Network.
The Palliative and End of Life Care Network supported the event with an exhibition stand, sharing their work taking place in primary care, which includes the EARLY identification tool, which helps GPs confirm people with palliative and end of life care needs, resources to support advance care planning using a personalised conversational approach and the electronic sharing of information using the EPaCCS summary care record in the Greater Manchester Care Record, which is accessible across primary care.
The Diabetes team also attended the event to promote the work of the team, in particular the tailored support for practices in terms of referrals into Healthier You and the Low Calorie Diet Pilot.
More information on the Low Calorie Diet Pilot.
Further information on Healthier You.
Pictured above: Gill Bailey at the SCNs' stand at the event.
Raising standards of maternity care for women of Black and Asian backgrounds was highlighted at an event held by the Caribbean African Health Network.
Akila Anbazhagan, the network’s maternity clinical lead and co-chair of the Black and Asian Maternity Advisory Group, spoke to people at Manchester Cathedral this month about the 12 new standards of care for families in Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire.
The Maternity Network’s programme lead, Dr Alison McGovern, also spoke to the guests about the Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS).
It has been well established that women/birthing people and babies from Black and Asian backgrounds have worse outcomes than those who are white.
Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire LMNS established the Black and Asian Maternity Advisory Group in 2021 to explore the contributory factors and draw actions to reduce this disparity.
The advisory group comprised of Black and Asian voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations, Maternity Voices Partnerships, professionals from maternity providers, primary care and higher education institutions.
Ten targeted focus groups consisting of Black and Asian women/birthing people shared their maternity experiences antenatally and postnatally. Based on the themes that emerged from the focus groups, 12 maternity standards of care for Black and Asian women were co-produced with input from all stakeholders, VCSEs, MVPs and the women/birthing people themselves.
The purpose of these standards is to help improve the experience and outcome and to enhance the care of Black and Asian women/birthing people accessing maternity services within Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire.
These standards will be embedded and implemented as an integral part of providing care for women/birthing people, their families and for staff.
The North West Maternal Medicine Network Board has been successful in becoming a Royal College of Physicians (RCP) training pilot.
The pilot will test a new approach to training obstetric physicians to provide complex clinical services to Maternal Medicine Networks.
The North West MMN was the only successful application in the north of England. Previously, this training was only available in Oxford and London, so the board, which includes representatives from the SCNs’ Maternity Network, is extremely pleased to have been successful in its bid to provide a facility here.
They will be working closely with the RCP to implement the pilot which is due to start towards the end of the year, initially training a registrar from within the NW MMN for the pilot, but then possibly opening it up wider in future.
The Network has announced the appointment of Dr Shivakumar Krishnamoorthy (pictured above) as its new hospital clinical director.
Dr Shivakumar will take over from Dr Adrian Parry-Jones on November 1, while Dr Parry-Jones will be converting his time into a stroke hyper acute clinical lead role half a day a week while also continuing to lead the NHS England pre-hospital telemedicine pilot project.
He is a senior stroke consultant at Stepping Hill Hospital and was clinical director for older people and stroke services for seven years.
He is stepping down as associate medical director in the Trust as he takes on his new role with the network a day a week.
The network is very excited that such an experienced clinical leader is joining the team and Dr Shivakumar will clinically lead the inpatient stroke pathway whilst working closely with our community clinical director Tracy Walker to provide leadership support for the network as a whole.
In other developments, the team has been collaborating with the Stroke Association on a pilot project to better understand health inequalities in our life after stroke pathways in the North East sector of our region.
Stroke survivors and carers from Bury, Oldham, North Manchester and Rochdale were interviewed to hear their experiences, with a focus on learning about the barriers, especially from those who come from an ethnic minority background.
The findings clearly showed there is a need to do better at signposting and supporting people into life after stroke services.
Services also need to ensure they share people’s preferred language and provide more culturally appropriate information to families.
You can view the report here and please get in touch with sarah.rickard@nca.nhs.uk if you want to discuss any aspects further.
The planned Palliative and End of Life Care Summit this month was postponed due to the country’s period of mourning following the death of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
We are currently working to confirm a new date, which will be circulated in the coming weeks.
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