The project is bringing together 9 Community Organisations,
3 NHS trusts, and 50 GP practices to improve the lives of people who have a
life-limiting illness, or long-term conditions, including Long COVID. These
people will be supported through a personalised care approach, and a community
peer support model to support them to live the best life they can and to be
more resilient in the future.
One Wirral is a Social Enterprise built from a need
identified in Primary and Community Care to work together to be more efficient.
They have the skills and experience to oversee the project, monitor the
outcomes, capture the learning, and share it with other regions because of the
model, many parts of the project will continue afterwards, leaving a legacy.
The project will:
1) Improve well-being and personal resilience
The project will offer resilience training to people
accessing the service, healthcare staff and partner staff to build knowledge on
techniques to for better personal resilience.
Each partner organisation has their current service offer
that people bridging the gap referrals will also be able to access. The
strength of collaboration is that people will be able to access more services
than the ‘bridging the COVID gap’ offer that they are referred in for.
2) Strengthening Communities
With the social distancing restrictions, the third sector
have had to stop valuable face-to-face community services which offer
connections and purpose to life. They are keen to re-establish those services
and would like to co-produce them with people. They have an opportunity to
‘reset’ and to develop them with members of the community. This project will fund
3 WTE Community Support Workers to work with people accessing the service to
develop community initiatives to enable this to happen.
3) Developing and distributing Long COVID information to
Primary care professionals and people of the Wirral
11 case studies have highlighted 3 themes: outdoor space use
is important; people with cancer need support; and a lack of good information
available about Long COVID and its symptoms, especially amongst the younger
generation. This project will work with health care professionals to develop
information that is relevant to people, including people from BAME communities.
There will be a campaign to roll out this information and how people access the
‘bridging the COVID gap’ service.
4) Supporting NHS to discharge complex COVID and Long COVID
patients
The local hospital has been proactive in starting a Long
COVID rehabilitation service, supporting over 70 patients to be able to get out
of hospital safely. Due to the complex needs, they are struggling to discharge
patients from the service. This project will address this by offering
non-clinical community support to patients.
Learning Disabilities Project
Listening to views of patients with learning disabilities on how they would like to be treated at the doctors, listening to Primary care staff on what they would like to learn about, then co-designing training for all primary care staff.
Learn More >Staff Box
A four tier workforce development and management platform tool including a HR portal, Learning Management System, Staff Rota System and Governance portal. Staff box is an integrated system enabling organisations and services to build a resilient and knowledgeable workforce – all in one box!
Learn More >Bridging the Covid gap together
Working with organisations across the Wirral to support people to rebuild communities in a post Covid world and to raise awareness of Long Covid and its symptoms.
Learn More >Walking for Health
Specialist walks are offered for people with Learning Disability and/or Autism, Military Veterans, and people living with and beyond cancer to increase their physical activity with social interactions and form a support group.
Learn More >Wirral Weigh
This will be co-delivered with Wirral Leisure services as part of Wirral’s local Tier 2 Weight Management Programme. It is a 6 week education programme that offers a supportive approach to sustained weight loss and weight maintenance.
Learn More >Co-Production: Improving Primary Care support for Patients at the End of Life
A project aimed to help improve primary care for patients at the end of life.
Learn More >Co-Production: Improving Primary Care Support for People with Cancer
A project aimed at improving primary care for people with cancer.
Learn More >IVAR Project: Collaborating with elderly people to tackle health and inequalities
The IVAR project is about connecting health communities it is an 18-month support package (facilitated by the Institute for Voluntary Action Research) to enable cross-sector partnerships to address health inequalities.
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