Harrow Borough Based Partnership (BBP) brings together our NHS organisations, Harrow Council, our GPs, local Voluntary & Community Sector and our citizens.
We strive to support each other and our communities as equal partners focussing on better health and wellbeing for all.
Statutory providers of Health and Care Services in Harrow: Harrow Council and North West London CCG (to become North West London ICS in line with Legislation) including:
- The Community Health Service provider for Harrow
- The Mental Health Service provider for Harrow
- The Primary Care Networks of Harrow
- The main Acute Service provider for Harrow
- The nominated organisation for the Voluntary and Community Sector for Harrow
- The GP Federation for Harrow
- The local hospice
What is the borough based partnership?
To hear more about the partnership in Harrow, please view the following video:
The Harrow Borough Based Partnership brings together health, social care, wider Local Authority services and Harrow’s voluntary and community sector, working alongside local communities to help the people of Harrow thrive; aspiring to improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities.
The partnership is an agreed collaborative arrangement, underpinned by a shared set of priorities and values, to drive better outcomes for the people we serve.
Our mission is to work with children, families, and communities in Harrow to support better care and healthier lives. To read more about the Harrow borough based partnership plan please click here. This plan has been extended and a new three-year plan is expected in 2026.
Our objectives
- Reduce health inequalities through embedding a robust population health management approach at a borough and neighbourhood level.
- Developing truly integrated out of hospital teams at a neighbourhood level to improve our citizens experience of care and reduce unplanned acute care and intensive social care packages
- Deliver transformational change in care pathways to deliver high quality integrated care, improving outcomes and addressing variation.
The design of our Governance systems reflects the changes that we are seeing through Integrated Care arrangements in the wider system and how this influences our roles, responsibilities, and interactions with each other, including our citizens.
Governance arrangements reflect what will enable to the Harrow Borough Based Partnership to flourish and is based on a strong partnership foundation and led by what is important to our partnership.
View our terms of reference
The transformational workstreams of the Harrow BBP reflect our priority programmes and the priorities of the ICS. The workstreams may be continuous or may be disbanded when the business of the group is concluded.
Delivery workstreams
Proactive Care and Reducing Health Inequalities Workstream
The core purpose of the group is to continue to strengthen our collaboration towards the delivery of a proactive care approach in Harrow, through stronger partnerships across communities, statutory agencies and voluntary sector agencies, access to better data and qualitative insights into our population to target and shape services to meet needs and coordinating action outside of health and care services to lever action to address the wider determinants of health. This activity will be targeted towards the aim of reducing health inequalities in Harrow as they relate to access, experience and outcomes.
Children and Young People’s Integrated Partnership Board
The purpose of this group is to improve the health, education, and wellbeing outcomes for children in their early years, for CYP with long terms conditions and CYP with complex needs through joint working. The role of the Board is to oversee the development of age-appropriate integrated services achieved through, delivery of local, system and national strategies, service integration, models of care that promote prevention and early intervention, managing complex and urgent maternity, delivery of the Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Strategy, and safeguarding.
Neighbourhood Working Oversight Group
The core purpose of the group is to oversee the establishment and effective functioning of Integrated Neighbourhood Teams in Harrow. Integrated Neighbourhood Teams are being established to break down silos in health and care services for the benefit of staff and citizens. They are made up of teams from across primary care networks (PCNs), wider primary care providers, secondary care teams, social care teams, Public Health, and the voluntary and community sector, who work together to share resources and information and form multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of a local community and tackling health inequalities.
Complex and Urgent Care Workstream
The core purpose of the group is to enable the delivery of proactive, personalised care with support from a multidisciplinary team of professionals to people with more complex needs, including, but not limited to, those with multiple long-term conditions. The goal is to enable people with complex needs in Harrow to live, as far as is possible for them, healthy fulfilled lives, cared for in their own homes for as long as is possible, with the right support available to the people who are caring for them.
Monitored areas include winter planning, preventing admissions, dementia, falls, carers, BCF, hospital discharges.
Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Workstream
The purpose of the Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism (MHLDA) workstream is to plan, oversee and assure the delivery of a multi-agency whole system approach and monitoring of key provider activities. Monitored areas include prevention initiatives, post-diagnosis dementia support, substance misuse pathways, homelessness, and mental health, learning disabilities and autism transformation, support for carers, respite and appropriate housing and accommodations.
Enabler workstreams
Workforce and OD Integration
The primary purpose of this enabler workstream is to bring together senior partners to ensure the overall oversight for the delivery of workforce and organisational development (OD) initiatives, to support the transformation required to deliver the workforce requirements of the Harrow Borough Delivery plan.
Strategic Estates Group
The core purpose of this enabler workstream is to provide a forum for estate leads from partner organisations to come together to share knowledge and priorities, whilst collectively agreeing on areas of collaboration across the partnership. A way the group achieves this is to provide advice and expertise to support the partnership in, delivering priority programmes, finding suitable estate to allow our teams to come together in new way, implementing the NWL ‘One Estates Strategy’ and developing long-term plans around neighbourhood development and how we transition our premises for the best delivery of services, to meet the future needs of our population.
Digital Transformation Community
The core purpose of this enabler workstream is to provide advice and expertise to lever the partnership’s digital programme, including promoting system digital tools available, to better facilitate the delivery of integrated care to Harrow residents. The goal is to enable direct care and access capabilities within our sovereign organisations including and not limited to shared care records and care planning.
Communication and Engagement
The core purpose of thus enabler workstream is to provide a central point of contact for escalating communications and engagement activities within the Harrow Borough-based Partnership (BbP). It plays a key role in gathering and raising community, patient, and resident insights, while also linking borough-level work with the ICS communications team. The group is responsible for driving operational delivery and shaping the strategic direction of engagement and communications in Harrow. It brings together essential partners, including NHS providers, primary care, local authority teams, Healthwatch, and the local voluntary and community sector (VCS). Through collaborative agenda-setting and forward planning, the group identifies opportunities for joint working where priorities align. It also acts as a regular forum for colleagues and partners to discuss, share, and coordinate their efforts.
PCNs form a key building block of the NHS long term plan. They bring together general practices to be able to work at scale. Most networks are based on geographical location.
There are 32 general practices in Harrow and they have been put into five prrimary care networks.
The five PCNs are:
- Harrow East
- Sphere
- Health Alliance
- Harrow Collaborative
- Healthsense
Each practice is aligned as below:
Harrow East
- Mollison Way
- Honeypot Medical Centre
- Bacon Lane Surgery
Sphere:
- Streatfield Surgery (Streatfield Health Centre)
- The Northwick Surgery
- St Peter’s Medical Centre
- Elliot Hall Centre
- Hatch End Medical Centre
- GP Direct
Health Alliance
- Aspri Medical Centre
- The Streatfield Medical Centre
- Belmont Health Centre
- The Stanmore Medical Centre
- The Circle Practice
- The Civic Medical Centre
Harrow Collaborative
- Pinner View Medical Centre
- The Pinner Road Surgery
- Savita Medical Centre
- Headstone Lane Medical Centre
- Headstone Road Surgery
- First Choice Medical
- Zain Medical Centre
- Kenton Clinic
- Kings Road Surgery
- The Shaftesbury Medical Centre
Healthsense
- The Pinn Medical Centre
- The Enderley Medical Centre
- Kenton Bridge Medical Centre (Dr Raja)
- Kenton Bridge (Medical Centre Dr Golden)
- Roxbourne Medical Centre
- Simpson House Medical Centre
- The Ridgeway Surgery
Healthy Harrow - Overview of the programme of work
Healthy Harrow is an overarching health and wellbeing programme approach to tackling inequalities, communicating and engaging with our residents, promoting health and wellbeing to help support communities to maintain healthy lifestyles. The programme aims to establish an integrated offer, bringing together health and wellbeing programmes/services under the Healthy Harrow brand.
The Healthy Harrow programme engages with the community through a one stop health and wellbeing website on a number of wide ranging issues to reduce the inequalities experienced by Harrow residents. Builds on the strength, networks, skills and knowledge of local communities, including groups in our community that are less likely to use statutory health services by recruiting local people as volunteers Champion to promote healthy lifestyles that inspires others to take a more active role in their health.
Empowers and trains community champions to offer appropriate advice, guidance, promote healthy lifestyles, raise awareness of health services, signposting to relevant services to help reduce social and cultural stigmas that prevent people from seeking help.
The programme includes:
Maternal Health and Wellbeing Champions: Provides local parents with support from community members who share similar experiences and lifestyles. Provide a range of antenatal and perinatal health and wellbeing information in multiple languages; breastfeeding support, signposting to relevant services; and parent and baby activities.
Hypertension and Diabetes Prevention Champions: An outreach community champion programme that engages with communities living within areas of deprivation in Harrow experiencing diabetes and hypertension, either diagnosed or undiagnosed. Raise awareness about the risks and complications relating to diabetes and hypertension and how people can make healthy lifestyle choices that could minimise the chances of developing the disease.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Champions: Raise awareness on mental health, break down stigma and provide information on services available in Harrow. The Mental Health Champion engages with people with lived experience and other groups to ensure their voices are heard. Support people to access mental wellbeing services and get people talking about mental health.
Community outreach and health checks: The community-based outreach health check program is conducted in partnership with the NHS community health team and community champions to reach people in Harrow. This outreach program is designed to target those in the community who are most likely to benefit from a health check. The goal is to provide them with the necessary information and resources to improve their health and wellbeing.
Macmillan Community Champion: To raise awareness of Macmillan services to underrepresented communities in Harrow. Connecting and signposting people with relevant groups and services.
Optivita project: A place-based initiative to re-establish a hyper-local preventative team in Harrow, to further increase collaboration and coordination of services and community assets with the aim of optimising life chances of parents, carers, babies, children and young people in Harrow.
Join us in as we celebrate the launch of ICON in Harrow as part of National ICON week.
Latest News from Harrow Integrated Care Partnership
| 09 November 2021 |
Harrow Borough Based Partnership – introducing Lisa, our Managing Director |
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| 13 Octobee 2023 |
Invitation to Harrow Citizen Health Forum on Tuesday 17 October at 5pm |
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To contact us please email us on the following email address: collaborating.harrow@nhs.net