Specialist Advice for Social Enterprises in Health and Social Care
Please see the documents below for information on social enterprise in health and social care.
Healthy Ambitions Directory
SESC are putting together a directory of social enterprise service providers who provide services/products in line with the Healthy Ambitions Pathways. This information will then be shared with NHS Yorkshire and the Humber to assist with commissioning. The eight care pathways are:
Staying Healthy
Reducing alcohol abuse, tackling rising obesity and helping people quit smoking. |
Maternity and Newborn Care
Encourage breastfeeding, reducing mothers smoking during pregnancy. Improve information for pregnant women and increase levels of consultancy and prioritise midwifery time. Improve the experience for women throughout pregnancy and delivery and improve the health and wellbeing of babies. |
Long Term Conditions
Annual personal care plans, with more support for people to manage their own conditions. Better coordination of care and also better use of new technology to help self-care. There is to be a prevention of problems. There will be a reduction in unnecessary hospital admissions and will help to keep people healthier for longer. |
Children’s Services
Improve children’s health and well being. Halt the rise in obese children and young people. Provide access to GP’s who are trained in the needs of children. Reduce asthma suffers admitted to hospital. Improve support for diabetics to control their condition. Improve services in the community and provide parents with better information and support and help with parenting skills |
Planned Care
Improve access to diagnostic services. Better communications between GP’s and hospital doctors. Reduce time patients spend in hospital. Have appropriate cover for intensive care and specialist care in non-hospital setting and home monitoring. |
Acute Care
Providing a wider range of services including pharmacies, urgent care centres. Develop self-care manuals; provide a single telephone number of local urgent care and out of hours care. Provide guidance for ambulance services to take people immediately to best location. To improve patient satisfaction and provide a better service. Make best use of staff and facilities. Save lives and reduce disability, strokes and heart attacks. |
Mental Health
Modernise dementia services, link mental health teams to GP practises, invest in community mental health services. Provide quicker access to the right services and reduce waiting. Improve services for people of all ages, reduce inequalities and provide better outcomes. |
End of Life Care
Provide clinical teams caring for patients, their families and carers. Establish single care co-ordinators. Skill professionals to deal with patients. |
If you provide services that fit into any of the theses categories please download the application form and return it to rachel.oddie@sesc.info
Health & the Economy in Yorkshire and the Humber
A very comprehensive overview of the region’s health economy, commissioned by Yorkshire Forward and the Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory
Download the Health and the Economy Report (pdf)
The Social Economy Sector in Sheffield and the Provision of Public Service Delivery in Health and Social Care
Research report funded by Social Enterprise Yorkshire and the Humber which looks at contract opportunities that have been accessed by social enterprise providers and the issues that arose.
Download the Public Service Delivery in Health and Social Care document (Word)
Enterprising Health
Enterprising Health is the latest publication from Social Enterprise London which shares current thinking about contracting with social enterprises.
Download the Enterprising Health document (pdf)
Welcoming Social Enterprise into Health and Social Care
A resource pack for social enterprise providers and commissioners
Download the Welcoming social enterprise into health and social care document (pdf)
Health White Paper Summary
“Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services” - What’s in it for the social economy?
First published in January 2006 this was the start point for the NHS reforms.
The reform agenda has since been picked up by the Darzi report with far reaching changes for both the NHS and its provider base. The Strategic Health authorities are publishing their responses to the Darzi recommendations further information for Yorkshire and the Humber is on www.yorksandhumber.nhs.uk/
Download the White Paper Summary (Word)
Download the Darzi Summary (pdf)
