Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust Partnership with Dene Healthcare

Written by: The Dene Team

Known collectively to their customers as the ‘Dene Team’ they set up a sub-group of particularly environmentally conscious staff members called ‘The Green Team’ to measure, justify and reduce their carbon emissions to net zero by 2030!

Dene Healthcare has now reduced its total footprint in measured emissions by 72% and over 90% of their staff are now certified as carbon literate.

While determined to achieve their ambitious target in such a short period without ‘off-setting’ the ‘Green Team’ at Dene chose to partner with the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, firstly as they are a proud Yorkshire based Company and secondly to further support what should be a global, combined effort!

To date Dene Healthcare have committed to supporting the planting of over 1750 trees and plan to invest and contribute further in 2024.

Gareth Fox, Operations Manager and lead of Dene’s Green Team, said:

“We are delighted to have been accepted as a partner of the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust!  The work they do is truly inspiring and motivational!  It has become our ambition at Dene Healthcare to try and mimic the dedication and impact they have on our planet!  Climate change is a global emergency and while no one can resolve the issue by themselves we believe establishing and aligning ourselves with organisations such as the YDMT is a positive step towards building improved climate conscious networks for the future!”

We’re delighted that Dene Healthcare has linked up with us to ensure that even more native woodlands and hedgerows can be planted, as well as enabling more people to connect with nature, to care for our woodlands and boost their wellbeing.

The Fuller Stocktake

Written by: Craig Arnott

Last year (November 2021), Amanda Pritchard (NHS CEO) commissioned a ‘national stocktake’ of Primary Care to be led by Dr Claire Fuller (a GP and ICS CEO). 

Essentially the NHS wanted a summary of how ICS’s (Integrated Care Systems – which will be established as statutory bodies July 2022) could best support Primary Care. 

ICS’s will have 3 ‘layers’ of hierarchy, although they are going to ‘supposedly’ work using the methodology of ‘subsidiarity’ – meaning the PCN’s (or neighbourhoods if you prefer) will be recommending how the money should be spend and services should be driven.

The layers (as well as how I choose to make sense of them), top down, are as follows:  

System – The new name for STP’s (Strategic Transformation Partnerships) but this time with statutory power.

Place – The replacement for CCG’s – which have been ‘subsumed’ but I wouldn’t be surprised if CCG’s just changed their names and the staff change their e-mail footers).

Neighbourhoods – PCN’s (Primary Care Networks)

The Fuller report/stocktake was always intended to shape the future structure of how Primary Care works within the new ICS structure but it has become far more significant now, as all 42 ICS leaders have signed, endorsed and committed that they agree with the findings!!!  The fact the NHS commissioned the document also means they have a responsibility to act upon them.

So, what does the report state:

In summary – very little we didn’t know already, using over-elaborate terminology and as many of the latest buzz words as one can ‘pivot’ (a mildly amusing reference if you have read through the document)!

The document isn’t really a ‘stocktake’ as it doesn’t focus or even assess the options available but looks only to develop Primary Care within the predetermined ICS boundaries.  Absolutely fair enough considering the more than likely, dramatic change coming.

The main bullet points are as follows:

The vision for integrating Primary Care consists of 3 essential offers.

      1                    Improving Access

2                     Improving Proactive, personal Care (what matters to me, not what’s the matter with          me!)

3                     Helping people stay well for longer (preventative care)

I would normally begrudge reading a document that doesn’t shed light on anything new, but one thing I really did appreciate was the ‘Annex: Framework for shared action’ (page 34 onwards)

The annex designates the responsibility for actions that need to be taken by NHSE (NHS England), DHSC (Department of Health and Social Care) and the ICS’s (Integrated Care Systems)!!! A bold move indeed (I don’t think I can remember another instance where responsibility was actually assigned UPWARDS in a report)! Fair play!

So, the management also have 3 main tasks, these are as follows: 

1                     Workforce

2                     Estates

3                     Data

So, there you have it! A very, very basic summary (A Crummy Guide) of the Fuller Stocktake, you can check out the full document and accompanying letter here: 

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/next-steps-for-integrating-primary-care-fuller-stocktake-report/

Premises Development

Written by: The Dene Team

Dene Healthcare now offer a complete range of services for your premises development requirements.

Everything from reallocating hard copy patient records to your phase 1,2 and 3 development needs.

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