Webinar success – outcomes and summary
Date: 20th February 2025
The webinar recording is here but underneath is a summary
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/rk_e-1slm6E0dq7glJRAdqL28exWCIRDCCdu4ws3rIk1iJKGNdFaF4_f5yjWsVjW.AAUtZpRvdRhlnuxg?startTime=1737637550000
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- Making better use of technology:
- In the UK it is estimated that 93% of people over 65 have access to smart phones and other digital technologies and so there is a lot of support for their development as long as they are usable by people who are not tech-savvy and there are well understood and effective alternatives for those who have no access to digital services.
- Some technologies around self-monitoring have been very well received in the North East area such as those provided by Health Call and are very usable for patients and work needs to be done with groups like NESCHA to support patients and carers to understand and use the “new normals’.
- Projects such as Florence in Sunderland have been very well received by staff and patients, but the examples of so many similar, positive projects such as with Telehealth and with innovations in residential and domicilary care don’t appear to be shared widely and applied consistently
- Despite widespread awareness of the NHS App, sadly some GP Practices still don’t encourage or, in some cases even enable, patients and carers to access their health record via it. It’s also frustrating that even the Great North Care Record does not allow access for patients or carers to their whole health and care record digitally. We need to publicise the value of and the good practice in patients and carers having access to their health and care records in relevant ways.
- Moving care from hospitals to communities:
- The development of the skills and career pathways of the Social Care workforce is an essential element of this and needs to be addressed with just as much importance as in Health as they are interdependent.
- We need to support and encourage the development of new roles (such as Assistant and Advanced Practitioners), consistent standards that support the delivery of health and care in community settings across existing boundaries.
- We need to spread wider and apply the lessons learned from projects such as Pharmacy First and the Antibiotic testing pilot in Teesside and in the use of new developments such as the South Tyneside and Sunderland Carer’s Pack.
- Many lessons from much older projects and schemes need to also be reflected on e.g. experiences in the early 2000s with Teesside University’s joint Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Nursing and Social Work Degrees and the Greater Manchester Workforce Development Confederation’s ‘Delivering the Workforce programme’.
- Attracting young people to and valuing careers in Health and Social Care is integral to this shift and needs to be reinforced through providing, systematic, long-term support for workforce development and CPD ‘A 10 year plan for an integrated workforce’.
- Work to develop new National Occupational Standards for future roles needs to be based on the premiss of thinking to the future rather than accepting the present.
- Preventing sickness, not just treating it:
- In order to prevent the NHS being viewed as a ‘sickness service’ it is vital that health and well-being should become a core part of the new National Curriculum in schools.
- The general public needs to develop a far greater understanding of the costs of NHS and care services in order to value it more and improve and manage their own health.
- The value of former roles in health education such as School Nurses, and past initiatives such as Sure Start needs to be a key element of future plans
Health education can be tailored to appropriate audiences building on the positive work on Mental Health, Obesity and Prostate awareness of the Sunderland AFC’s Foundation of Light and with other NE clubs and in their stadia.