Health and social care organisations in Derbyshire have been working closely together for some time, to improve care and services for people and make them as efficient and effective as possible.
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Planning future services together so people can be healthy, live well and stay well.
The plans set out a vision for a more joined-up approach to health and social care, the steps that should be taken to get there and how everyone involved needs to work together to improve what we deliver.
Health and social care organisations in Derbyshire have been working closely together for some time, to improve care and services for people and make them as efficient and effective as possible. More recently, proposed reform for the health and care system will likely see ICSs become legally constituted organisations, with effect from April 2022, incorporating the roles of Clinical Commissioning Groups and have legal duties of partnership and collaboration across NHS providers and some local authority services.
There is more information about this in the our plans section.
Get ready for an online event on Tuesday 21 September 2021, from 2pm to 3pm, which could help you find a new role and a new career. Social care can be life-changing, both for people who need help and those who provide it. In these online events, hosted by Joined Up Careers Derbyshire in…
In response to the national shortage of blood tubes, all primary care and community blood test appointments will be postponed from Tuesday 31 August 2021 until Friday 17 September 2021. Please do not attend hospitals or clinics to access a blood test for an appointment between these dates. This…
GP Blood Test Appointments – Becton Dickinson (BD) Blood Tube Supply Disruption In response to the national shortage of blood tubes, non-urgent primary care and community blood test appointments will be postponed. Your GP surgery will be working to ensure that the most urgent tests can continue…
NHS and care services across Derbyshire are once again asking for the public’s help to make sure they can focus care on the sickest patients. All health and care services across the city and county have felt the strain as life returns to normal following Covid-19 restrictions coming to an end but…
Hypo Awareness Week aims to improve staff knowledge about Hypoglycaemia, a complication in diabetes, by raising awareness about how to recognise the symptoms and treat the condition. Hypoglycaemia, also known as a hypo, takes place when the blood glucose levels of people with diabetes drop too…
Joined Up Care Derbyshire have developed a system to collect, organise and collate insight gathered across all system partners in Derbyshire, called the Patient and Public Insight Library. It is easily accessible and searchable by a wide variety of professionals and can be found on the NHS Futures…
On Thursday 16 September 2021, the Medicines Order Line (MOL) service will operate reduced hours of 8am - 3pm to enable essential staff training from 3pm - 4pm. The service will then resume normal operating hours of 8am - 4pm on Friday 17 September 2021. If you have access to email, you can still…
Friday 10th September 2021 marks World Suicide Prevention Day. This is an opportunity to raise awareness and to reduce the stigma around mental health and suicide prevention. The theme is Creating Hope Through Action What can you do? We can all play a role, at individual, group and…
Health and care professionals in Derbyshire are well-versed in working together to maintain services under pressure. Each part of the NHS is finely balanced in relying upon the role and expertise of others to make sure patients can continue to enter and progress through the service when they are…
Know Your Numbers! Week 2021 is taking place from 6-12 September. Due to social distancing measures there won't be free pressure checks in our community Pressure Stations again this year, but we will still encourage the whole of the UK to Know Their Numbers! We're focusing on the forgotten…
NHS England is advertising for a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead the future Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations, local government and the voluntary sector. These partnerships aim to meet health and care…
We currently have 19 volunteers on the Readers’ Panel who review new and revised patient information leaflets for content and relevance and to make sure that the information is understandable, clear and concise. Guidance will be provided to any new volunteers. What is the Readers’ Panel?…
The NHS in Derby and Derbyshire is bracing itself for a challenging autumn and asking the public to help, beginning with the August Bank Holiday weekend as health services cope with unprecedented challenges. The region's two largest hospitals, Royal Derby Hospital and Chesterfield Royal, are…