ICS News | September 2023
NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight
The statutory organisation responsible for setting the strategic plan for the NHS in Hampshire and Isle of Wight.
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We’ll use this platform to celebrate success, highlight best practice and provide the perspectives of patients and staff from across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System.
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ICP assembly puts a focus on mental wellbeing
The Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) Assembly took place in Andover this month. It brought together staff and volunteers from across the system, including councils, the NHS, the fire service, the police, the voluntary sector and many others.?
Watch the short video below featuring members of the partnership and check out our web pages to understand more about our integrated care strategy.
Mental wellbeing
The focus for this assembly was mental wellbeing, with powerful testimony from those with lived experience - vital voices to help shape our services in the future. There were constructive discussions about how we can all work together for the benefit of our communities and some great examples of where this is already happening.
"I don't think I've been in a room where the conversation was about mental wellbeing, as opposed to mental ill health, and that's a real change."
One example was the campaign shared by all ICP Joint Committee partners for Suicide Prevention Day, promoting Life Cards and the twenty minute suicide prevention training from the Zero Suicide Alliance. ????
Flu and COVID-19 vaccination programmes in full swing across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Thousands of people across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have said yes to protecting themselves against winter illnesses by having their flu and COVID-19 vaccinations.
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The vaccination programme started earlier this month and in the first two weeks of going live more than 73,500 people had been vaccinated.
We've set up a web page with all the information relating to getting your winter vaccination and you can hear from Dr Matt Nisbet on why they're so important below. ?
Raising Voices in Research
The Raising Voices in Research partnership in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight has been awarded an additional ￡150,000 following a successful application to expand the project designed to increase the number of people taking part in health research. This now brings the funding to just under ￡250,000.
The first phase of the project, which launched in November 2022, brought together the local NHS, voluntary sector, community and research organisations to work with local people to find out how research can better involve a range of communities.?
Spotlight on the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Long Covid Service
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Long Covid Service have produced a series of films to help people suffering from long covid. The films are designed to help you understand more about normal breathing and why you may be feeling more breathless. They will give you strategies to help reduce your symptoms of breathlessness and irritable cough, as well as guidance on how to return to activity and exercise. They will also provide you with tools to help clear your chest of secretions, if this is a symptom that you are experiencing.
Local NHS providers (Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Solent NHS Trust and Isle of Wight NHS Foundation Trust) have a number of clinics across Hampshire and Isle of Wight to help patients suffering from the effects of Long COVID.