Making integrated care a reality in Southwark and Lambeth
Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC) has had a positive impact on improving care for local people, and has built a strong foundation for further integrating health and social systems [...] Read more
End of SLIC Reports
Two reports have been produced to evaluate the successes and challenges of SLIC, examine its impact and share lessons learned. The SLIC partnership produced their own report ‘Integrating Care in [...] Read more
Reflecting on four years of SLIC
Merav Dover and Helen Charlesworth-May reflect on the lessons learned, challenges and successes during the four years of SLIC [...] Read more
The closure of SLIC and the future of integrated care in Southwark and Lambeth
Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC) will shortly close to make way for the next phase of the partnership which is bringing together health and social care systems across the [...] Read more
End of SLIC partner event - 22 March 2016
Sir Ron Kerr, Co-Chair of the SLIC Sponsor Board gave a speech at the closure of SLIC thank you event on Tuesday 22 March. Sir Ron Kerr: "Welcome to the [...] Read more
Early interventions to prevent falls
People who were at risk of falling now have an improved quality of life thanks to community exercise classes in Southwark and Lambeth. The community exercise classes help people to [...] Read more
Video: Happy Drums
Happy Drums is a community drumming class which has been funded by a grant from The Health and Wellbeing Fund to run workshops for older people in Vassall and Coldharbour [...] Read more
Happy drummers in Lambeth
Older people in Lambeth are feeling happier thanks to some lively drumming. Happy Drums, a community drumming class, has been funded by a grant from The Health and Wellbeing Fund [...] Read more
Virtual Clinics
GPs, community pharmacists and hospital-based consultant geriatricians are now coming together to review the care and treatment of older people in Southwark and Lambeth at new Virtual Clinics. The aim [...] Read more
Q&A with Cathy Ingram
Head of Local Rehabilitation and Integrated Care, Guy's and St Thomas' Community What have you been involved in as part of SLIC? I have been involved in SLIC from the [...] Read more
Reduced readmission rates
Patient readmission rates to King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust from care homes have reduced during a recent project in Southwark and Lambeth. Evidence suggests that a transfer of care [...] Read more
Joining up patient care in Southwark and Lambeth
NHS organisations in Southwark and Lambeth have joined forces to improve patient care by sharing electronic patient records through a new secure system. The Local Care Record allows GPs, hospital [...] Read more
Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care News - February 2016
The latest issue of Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care News, for citizens and staff working within our partner organisations, has now published. This edition focuses on the successes and learning of [...] Read more
Extra-care accommodation
Lambeth and Southwark councils are working with King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trusts on a new project which aims to give people time to recover [...] Read more
Community spirit improving thanks to grant scheme
Local people from Vassall and Coldharbour wards in Brixton are benefitting from an injection of community spirit this winter after 13 local individuals and groups were awarded grants from the [...] Read more
Engage for success
The final evaluation report of the Older People’s Programme highlights the importance of effective partnership working and recognises strides made by partners, staff and citizens within Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care [...] Read more
Sharing patient records in Southwark and Lambeth
The first successful sharing of electronic patient records between the three King’s Health Partners NHS trusts and a local GP practice has taken place. Last week, the Heatherington Practice in [...] Read more
Starting to reflect on SLIC success and learning
Over the last four years the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care partnership has designed and tested a variety of new ways of providing care with local people, through the Older [...] Read more
Brenda Donnelly: Integrated Care
Brenda Donnelly, former Community Multi-Disciplinary Team Chair in South Southwark, speaks to us about the importance of integrated care. Most significantly Brenda explains that the process of change can be [...] Read more
Social isolation reduced through care navigation
Care navigation is now being piloted in Southwark GP Federations. The aim is to support GP practices to reduce social isolation and manage the social needs of their older patients. [...] Read more
My Catheter Passport shortlisted for engagement award
My Catheter Passport was recently shortlisted for the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Involvement to Impact Awards. The awards recognised the valuable input and involvement of local people [...] Read more
Improving Catheter Care: Learning from others
By Gill Downing, Bladder and Bowel Specialist Nurse, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust As a specialist nurse in the Bladder and Bowel Team, I find myself actively seeking [...] Read more
Improving hospital and care home transfer of care
A resource pack has been launched to improve the transfer of care between King’s College Hospital and care homes in Southwark and Lambeth. The Care Home Resource Pack contains templates, [...] Read more
Local Care Record coming soon…
This winter, we are introducing a new way of sharing patient electronic medical records securely between hospitals, community services and GP practices. The Local Care Record will allow staff directly involved [...] Read more
Tackling local isolation this Christmas
This winter local people and community groups will be tackling isolation in Lambeth. A small grants scheme has been launched by NHS Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Lambeth Council, [...] Read more
Public meet about Local Care Record
Clinicians and local people from Southwark and Lambeth came together last week to discuss the new Local Care Record system. The public event aimed to highlight the benefits of the [...] Read more
From hospital to care home, and back again
By Bose Adegbola, Older Person's Specialist Nurse, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Increased life-expectancy combined with population growth has naturally led to a rise in the number of [...] Read more
Building on the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care Partnership: immediate and future priorities
Message from SLIC Sponsor Board Over the last three years the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC) partnership has shown the commitment of leaders, front line staff and citizens to [...] Read more
Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care News - September 2015
The latest edition of Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care News, for citizens and staff working within our partner organisations, has now published. This edition focuses on how some of our [...] Read more
Reducing hospital stays through integrated care
The length of time patients are staying in hospital has been reduced on two wards at St Thomas’ and King’s College hospitals, thanks to the Integrated Hospital Discharge Teams being [...] Read more
Training course is Good to Go
Good to Go: Enhancing Patient Transfer is a new simulation-based training course for health and social care professionals to improve care transfers of older people with complex needs leaving hospital. It [...] Read more
Extra-care from British Red Cross
Amy Archer plays a very unique role on Anne Ward at St Thomas’ Hospital. Amy is the Discharge Facilitator in the Integrated Hospital Discharge Team currently being tested on the [...] Read more
My Catheter Passport is here
King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, including community services, are launching My Catheter Passport today (Monday 20 July) to improve care for people with catheters. Catheter associated [...] Read more
Video: Introduction to Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care
Watch our new video about the development of integrated care in Southwark and Lambeth by our partnership. Local health and social care professionals and citizens explain why integration is important [...] Read more
Falls
Across Southwark and Lambeth, falls account for a significant number of fractures, injuries and hospital admissions, amongst people aged 65 and over. It is forecast 5,173 falls and 296 hip [...] Read more
Urinary Tract Infection
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are very common in adults – it is estimated half of all women in the UK will have a UTI at least once in their life [...] Read more
Acute-Care Home Interface
25 per cent of people aged 75 or over are readmitted to hospital within 30 days of being discharged. This percentage can increase when people are discharged from hospital to [...] Read more
Community Multi-Disciplinary Teams
Community Multi-Disciplinary Teams are groups of health, social care, voluntary and community sector professionals that come together to discuss and improve complex care plans of people in Southwark and Lambeth. [...] Read more
Older People’s Information Directory
The aim of this project was to create an online directory of clinical, social and voluntary sector support services for older people, carers and health and social care professionals in [...] Read more
My Catheter Passport
The aim of the catheter passport is to improve communication and information sharing between health and social care professionals about the management of patients’ catheters. It is hoped that the [...] Read more
Mental Health Care Home Intervention Team
The number of elderly residents in care homes that exhibit challenging behaviours related to mental health issues and Dementia is increasing. In many cases care homes are not equipped to [...] Read more
Holistic Assessments
Holistic Assessments are undertaken to proactively identify the care needs of older people in Southwark and Lambeth. These assessments are done by general practice professionals in a GP surgery or [...] Read more
Simplified discharge
Our Simplified Discharge work aims to resolve the issue of people remaining in hospital longer than needed. Many local people have told us they would prefer to be cared for [...] Read more
Integrated Care Managers
The aim of integrated care management is to keep more vulnerable people and those who have complex care requirements well and out of hospital, by improving the co-ordination of care [...] Read more
Mental Health Support for Acute to Community
Two thirds of hospital beds are occupied by people aged over 65 and of these, two thirds have some form of mental health issue, often Dementia. Post-hospital admission mental health [...] Read more
Nutrition
Recent estimates by the Lambeth and Southwark Action on Malnutrition Project (LAMP) team suggest approximately 16,000 adults in each of the two boroughs are likely to be malnourished or at [...] Read more
Mavis' story: Strength and Balance
Mavis Adenekan speaks about her experience of the Strength and Balance classes and explains the positive impact they have had on her life. Mavis, 74 years old, says: “I began [...] Read more
William’s story told by Irene Karrouze, Continence Nurse Specialist
The catheter passport is a document full of useful information and contact details for people with catheters, and allows health and social care professionals to keep a record of the [...] Read more
Mary’s story told by Claire Flanagan, Team Leader, Mental Health Care Home Intervention Team
“Mary, aged 100 years old, was referred to us by the care home she had lived in since June 2014, because she was becoming aggressive at random points during the day, [...] Read more
Final Resilience meeting
The Resilience Interest Group is meeting for the last time to celebrate its success, highlight its impact and discuss how to take the work forward. The group will meet on [...] Read more
The King's Fund Integrated Care bulletin editorial - "One system, one budget"
Merav Dover, Chief Officer of Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care, has written the editorial for this month's The King's Fund Integrated Care bulletin (August 2015). The editorial read: "One system, [...] Read more
Catheter Passport coming soon
King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, including community services, are launching My Catheter Passport next week to improve care for people with catheters. The Passport is a [...] Read more
Care Navigation
This project aims to help local people navigate the health and social care system and enhance the quality of delivery of our three main primary care programmes; through Community Multi-Disciplinary [...] Read more
More resilience
Thanks to the progress our Resilience Interest Group has already made and how they want to take resilience forward in Southwark and Lambeth communities, funding has now been approved for [...] Read more
#CitizensForum social media summary
On 12 May we held our last Citizens' Forum which focused on developing an integrated workforce in Southwark and Lambeth. The Forum was attended by 80 people from across the [...] Read more
Testing underway at St Thomas’ and King’s
Testing is now underway to improve the hospital discharge process for elderly people on inpatient wards at St Thomas’ and King’s College hospitals. Currently people are staying in hospital longer [...] Read more
Solving catheter care challenges
People with catheters face many challenges when it comes to the care they receive. On Tuesday 27 January, health and social care professionals, voluntary and community sector colleagues, carers and [...] Read more
Drawing from experience
A local artist helped capture the interesting discussions had at our first Resilience Interest Group. The meeting, held in December, was well attended by about 50 people including: health and [...] Read more
Martin thanks NHS for keeping him alive for over 20 years
Martin Dadswell can’t thank the NHS enough for the care he has received since he was diagnosed with HIV 20 years ago. Martin is now supporting our work to build [...] Read more