The Pharmacy Access Scheme (PhAS) aims to ensure that a baseline level of patient access to NHS community pharmaceutical services in England is protected. The PhAS scheme is a core part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2019/20 to 2023/24. Our geospatial team was engaged by the UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to support implementation through delivering updated distance analytics to and between pharmacies.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused national backlogs across patients waiting for treatment. Further, national data was released to demonstrate the waiting list backlog for mental health. In response, the south west region required an event to share best practice in the management of waiting lists. They asked SCW to deliver this.
People with a learning disability and autistic people have demonstrably higher rates of constipation than the general population. It is, in fact, one of the five most common long-term health conditions reported by this group. We were asked by NHSE South West to carry out a rapid review to understand constipation and its management in people with a learning disability and autistic people.
Somerset CCG and County council were found to have 'widespread weaknesses' in their Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) services which were causing distress to many children, their parents, and their families.
Berkshire West Integrated Care Partnership’s (ICP) Children and Young People’s (CYP) Mental Health and Learning Disability board tasked the system leaders to review all CYP emotional wellbeing and mental health services. As a result, we are currently working with Berkshire West ICP to align and integrate the variety of service access points for CYP, families and professionals. This will improve first and earlier response as well as improve the management of risk.
The Humber Acute Service Review (HASR) aims to deliver new models of care and infrastructure investment across a challenged health and care system. We were asked by HASR to provide geospatial and analytical support to help deliver their objective.
NHSE/I South West region wanted an objective evaluation of the progress made by their seven systems in delivering the transformation needed in Children and Young People’s (CYP) services. SCW rapidly designed and mobilised a bespoke assessment process to provide a comprehensive evaluation. Best practice, key themes and recommendations were identified for the region.
NHS England and Improvement South East held an all-day hackathon event focused on the Children and Young People (CYP) Eating Disorder (ED) pathway in the region. The event identified ways to manage the immediate growth in CYP requiring ED services. As a result, we were asked to provide programme management for a regional workstream, to deliver the CAMHS Hackathon recommendations.
Implementing safe and effective teledermatology triage pathways and processes can reduce waiting times, footfall into Community Services and Acute Trusts, and improve patient outcomes. We delivered a three-part programme for NHSX to assess whether teledermatology could deliver its 10% waiting time reduction target.
To review the plans for Learning and Autism in their systems NHSE/I South West region wanted an analysis of the Learning Disability and Autism roadmaps submitted by their seven systems. We carried out a high-level review of plans to inform future work, a step towards making health and care services better for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
SCW was asked to deliver an insight-driven primary care programme to PCNs within the Buckingham, Oxfordshire & Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care System (ICS). This required the development of a workforce programme to support the participating PCNs with the identification of interventions that would deliver maximum impact and ensure that targeted care could be delivered to the population over the next 3, 5, and 10 years.
NHS England commissioned the PHM Accelerator Programme to support STPs and emerging ICSs to develop their PHM capabilities to manage their population better. We are providing integrated data sets to identify patients who would benefit from a more proactive, personalised approach to primary care.