Guys and St Thomas (GSTT) Transformation Team, Lambeth Council and CCG commissioners have been working together to help support and develop the commissioned community support (home care) providers.
Community health and social care teams are frequently supporting the same individual at home and should be able to contact each other easily in order to improve the service they are jointly providing.
In Lambeth and Southwark we are working to put patients truly at the centre of the care they receive. On 25 January 2019 at the Kia Oval, over 50 health, social care and voluntary community sector organisation professionals from across the borough came together to celebrate the success of the Coordinated Care Multidisciplinary Training Programme.
Faced with increasing demand, budgets that don’t always keep pace and reports that services didn’t feel joined up, Lambeth council and the Clinical Commissioning Group (who organise and buy services on behalf of the population) took the innovative step of joining forces to improve things.