NHC Annual Delivery Update
NHC has been busy in 2023-24 delivering Services to Newham Patients and GP Practices as detailed in the delivery update.
NHC presents at the Centre for Health and Equity event
On 29th November Rachel Ashworth (Head of Health Equity and PCN Transformation) Cliff McMahon-Docherty (Personalisation lead and social prescriber) and Khristle Absalud (Docklands PCN Manager) attended and presented at the Centre for Health and Care Equity event at the Old Stratford Town Hall. This event was an opportunity for system partners across Newham to share their health inequalities work. Up to 80…
Black History Month – Ilma and her mother Marjorie’s story
As we celebrate Black History Month, our Care Coordinator, Ilma, shares her and her mother’s inspiring stories of their experiences in healthcare. My mother (Marjorie Turner) left Barbados at the age of 19 in 1956 to come to England to train as a nurse, not knowing anyone here in England. It was on the journey…
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Mock CQC and the actions we’ve taken
NHC received CQC registration in October 2020 and, has been providing patient-facing services since then. We have yet to experience a formal CQC visit, but we conducted an internal mock CQC in August 2022 and another MOCK CQC assessment by an external expert in May 2023. The CQC inspector interviewed Senior Leadership Team (SLT), board…
Health and Wellbeing Coaching: A case study
This week is #HealthCoaching Awareness Week so we’re taking a close look at the role of a Health and Wellbeing Coach. Health and Wellbeing coaches are one of the three personalised roles in GP practices along with social prescribers and care coordinators. But what do they do and how can they help patients? Newham based…
CEO Blog’s – Karen’s reflections on NHS 75
By Karen Livingstone, CEO at NHC It’s hard to miss the publicity around the 75th anniversary of the NHS. All the mainstream media has been full of it. You can have your say as part of the NHS’s own celebrations with a dedicated web site and opportunity to share your NHS Story. If you’re comfortable…
History of the NHS in Newham
History of the NHS Launched in 1948 as part of the transformative post war Labour Government, Aneurin Bevan, the then Health Secretary sought to bring together the hospitals, doctors (fundamentally the GPs), pharmacists opticians and dentists into one umbrella healthcare organisation. The original announcement, detailed below, invited patients to sign up to their chosen doctor….
Personalised Care roles in Newham
Personalisation is a key driver to how we work with patients and three roles in particular are designed to work holistically to address what matters most to patients. NHC has a team of 18 social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches and care coordinators who together make up the organisation’s personalisation team, working in…
Cervical Screening Awareness Week
This week is Cervical Screening Awareness Week (19th-24th June) so we wanted to showcase the work that has, and will be done, across Newham to help more people to access cervical cancer screenings or ‘smear’ tests. Why are Cervical Screenings important? Cervical cancer is the most common form of cancer in women under 35 with…