Our Better Care Together clinical strategy focuses on new ways of working, meaning more people in our community will be cared for closer to or in their own homes.
Providers of health and social care across ‘the Bay’ have been developing a strategy to join up services for a number of years. We are now taking it to the next level to ensure we are working together for the benefits of the local population.
As Bay Health and Care Partners we are working as one team without walls, looking at ways of being as cost-effective as possible and reducing duplication – we want to make the ‘bay pound’ go further. Working together, we want to stop patients being unnecessarily ‘bounced’ around the system. We want patients to be seen in the right place, at the right time, by those best placed to help them. The work of Bay Health and Care Partners (BH&CP) has been recognised nationally with additional funding awarded for the further development of leading edge models of care. BH&CP represents 10 health and social care providers delivering care across the Morecambe Bay area – all with a shared vision of helping our local communities enjoy great physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
Our aim is to make health, care and support services more accessible, more responsive (less waiting time for patients) and more effective. Care will be better coordinated and closer to home. To achieve this we will support the mobilisation of communities to improve their health and wellbeing, deliver high quality, continuously improving and compassionate care to everyone using our services – in a way which is sustainable in the long term. Our health professionals are at the forefront of these developments and, for our workforce, this means a future full of opportunities including developing innovative ways of working across traditional boundaries, with new roles being developed offering the opportunity for career development.
Achievements so far include: a reduction in hospital referrals; patients not needing to travel as far through the use of ‘tele-health’ video technology and supporting patients to better manage their own care, for example, through programmes such as ‘Active Lives’. By working together as BH&CP we will improve the quality of care, the patient and public experience and the health outcomes of the population of Morecambe Bay.
Our Organisations & Partners
Find out more about the organisations that are part of Bay Health and Care Partners, and what they do to provide the best care and set the highest standards. We also work with a number of organisations across the region who help us deliver better care across the Bay area. Discover more about our partners by clicking on a logo below.
Our Key Message
Our ambition is to see a network of communities around Morecambe Bay enjoying great physical, mental and emotional wellbeing – supported by a health and care system providing care that is recognised as being as good as it gets.
To achieve this we will support the mobilisation of communities to improve their health and wellbeing, deliver high quality, continuously improving and compassionate care to everyone using our services – in a way which is sustainable in the long term.
We are one of 50 NHS Vanguards, receiving support from NHS England’s new NHS Transformation Fund, to explore and deliver new ways of working.
Our health professionals are at the forefront of these developments and for our workforce, this means a future full of opportunities including developing innovative ways of working across traditional boundaries, with new roles being developed offering the opportunity for career development.
