Health & Wellbeing Collaboratives Asset Based Community Development Julie Grimmer and Martin Wakefield

Where are we? Based at Centre4, Nunsthorpe

84 Volunteers

Develop and Facilitate: What do we do Develop and Facilitate: The Early Presentation of Cancer symptoms The Older People’s Health & Wellbeing programme Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative Skin Health Collaborative Dementia Collaborative Pre-diabetes Collaborative Good Neighbours Programme We facilitate teams of local people (volunteers) to develop and run their initiatives

How the Collaborative works The term Collaborative is a framework for improvement The Collaborative team work with Community members in partnership The community members focus on Health and Social care issues within their own community We support them to gain insight plan and deliver real change in their communities

The Origins – Healthy Communities Collaborative Topic Stimulates Desire for other topics Successful action Single topic approach Set outcomes National Inflexible Single focus on improvement science or dual focus including community involvement Enhances Community Development 6

The Collaboratives story 2007 – two projects: Older peoples/cancer 2009 – Coronary Heart Disease 2010 – Skin health (reducing pressure sores) 2010 – lung cancer 2011 – laryngeal cancer 2011 – cancer champions training (funded by Macmillan) 2012 – Winter planning 2012 – Ovarian and Oesophageal cancer 2013 – Re-branding as Health & Wellbeing 2013 – Kidney and bladder cancer

PREVENTION 2014 Pre-diabetes Collaborative 2014 Dementia Collaborative 2015 Tai – Chi Train the Trainer 2015 Launch of Good Neighbours Initiative in Humberston (tackling social isolation) 2016 Extension of Good Neighbours in Immingham, Habrough and Stallingborough

Activity 2015 Cancer teams 6795 contacts Cancer champions 223 trained champions Pre-diabetes team 935 pre- diabetes risk assessments (40% mod/high) Skin team 1056 contacts Older Peoples 450 average club attendances weekly at 22 clubs Winter planning 1406 conversations Dementia 524 contacts Good Neighbours 129 membership cards

Volunteer Hours: 8472 hours Value to N. E. Lincs In 2015 Volunteer Hours: 8472 hours

Awards 2008 – Health & Social Care regional award for best social marketing project 2008 Acorn Alliance, best public health project 2010 – Patient Involvement, Wounds UK 2010 – Finalist Health Service Journal award 2012 – NHS Innovation Prize Challenge 2015 – Quality in Care (diabetes prevention – joint commended

The Future Growing Collaboratives to support changes in health & social care Focus on prevention Empowering more groups Supporting and growing ‘Good Neighbours

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