We are delighted to share that we won the Partner Award category at the Herts Urgent Care (HUC) Heroes Awards 2023/24. HUC Heroes are those who have shown great care towards patients, supported colleagues and gone above and beyond in their area of work.
Our Directory of Services (DoS) and Digital Care Navigation colleagues were nominated for delivering significant impact to the HUC (Provider of NHS 111 in Somerset).
Celebrating Midwives: a vital climate solution on International Day of the Midwife 2024
This year’s International Day of the Midwife on Sunday, 5 May will see midwives around the world celebrate their role in women’s sexual and reproductive health within the broader context of environmental advocacy and action. Put succinctly, midwives have a crucial role in the fight against climate change and climate activism is embedded in midwife-led models of care.
Over the years we have developed multiple early years careers schemes and interventions. These include graduate schemes both in-house for SCW and for our partners across the system at a local level, as well as managing and supporting the pan regional delivery of specialist Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) graduate apprenticeship schemes and delivering assessment and selection support for national talent schemes.
In February, our partner National Voices hosted a National Learning Event for the Core20PLUS Connector sites with SCW, NHS England Health Inequalities Improvement Team and The Health Creation Alliance. The event celebrated the Connectors, the fantastic work they are doing and the impact they are making. We're pleased to continue coordinating the Core20PLUS Connectors programme across England and to share with you the key points from the event.
We are delighted to have been shortlisted in the HSJ Digital Awards 2024. Bristol City Council, North Somerset Council, South Gloucestershire Council, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB together with NHS SCW have been shortlisted in the Connecting Health and Social Care through Digital award category. This award recognises the teams connecting health and social care to improve experience and outcomes for local citizens.
In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, where technology is increasingly intertwined with patient care and organisational operations, the importance of Enterprise Architecture (EA) cannot be overstated. As NHS provider organisations strive to deliver efficient, high-quality care while managing costs and complying with national policy, robust EA frameworks serve as navigational guides, providing a structured approach to aligning technology with national policy and organisational goals.
General Practice continues to face challenges from many directions: workforce challenges, the challenges of increasing demand and the challenge of ensuring general practice remains a financially viable entity in the system coupled with the challenges inherent with the expectations of working collaboratively across practices and wider neighbourhoods.
As part of our mission to be trusted partners that deliver innovative services, we participate in the internationally recognised Service Desk Institute (SDI) annual certificate programme, an accreditation authority for thousands of companies in over 150 countries. In January 2024, we were delighted to reach our highest accreditation since we began our journey with SDI in 2020, achieving three stars, and acknowledged as ‘customer-led’ – a huge accolade and a great achievement for our team.
The UK House of Parliament can be a pretty argumentative place and agreement across both benches can be vanishingly rare. Recently, however, something surprising happened. Two, admittedly now-retired, politicians from opposite sides of the House released a joint report on what they both agree the UK needs to do to position itself as a leader in the biotech revolution.