Primary Care, Communities and Social Value
The key ambitions of the Primary Care, Communities and Social Value Directorate are to:
- Improve access to integrated primary care, by creating new and innovative models of care which will deliver the ambitions for improved access detailed within the ‘Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care’, improve quality of patient experience and outcome and create enhanced resilience of services and workforce. Transforming for tomorrow whilst delivering today.
- In partnership with PCNs, develop integrated community-based, multi-professional and multi-agency teams with a view to delivering person- centred care, targeted to meet the identified need of local communities.
- To implement integrated pathways of care for patients with long-term conditions including children and young people, people with mental health conditions and those with long-term conditions including frailty and, people at the end of their lives to support proactive identification, early intervention, personalised care planning and seamless management of deterioration.
Key to achieving these ambitions is integration across service and organisational boundaries, working in partnership with our staff, patients and the public to co-design pathways of care and to drive up experience and outcomes, adopting an approach of continuous improvement and learning and maximising the benefit of our investments to ensure we gain greatest impact.