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

2. Where are we?
Based at Centre4, Nunsthorpe

3. 84 Volunteers

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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

11. 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

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

13. Questions?