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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.
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 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Healthy Harrow – Championing Health & Wellbeing
To contact us please email us on the following email address: collaborating.harrow@nhs.net