The Salford Together partnership today, Thursday 1 October received £5.17m funding towards its ‘radical’ new care model to integrate health, social care, mental health and wellbeing for adults and older people in the city.
The partnership – an alliance formed by NHS Salford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Salford City Council, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Greater Manchester West NHS Foundation Trust – is one of 50 sites in England awarded ‘vanguard’ status last March, granting access to a share of a transformation fund of £200m to help redesign and improve local health and social care.
The funding announced today will aid workforce development, organised around patients and local residents and assist the programme’s extension to the wider adult population in Salford.
Karen Proctor, Director of Commissioning at NHS Salford CCG, said: “We welcome this additional support for our ground-breaking new model of care which aims to bring about a more joined-up and better co-ordinated health and social care for Salford residents.
“With community nurses, GPs, social care specialists, community mental health professionals and others working more closely together, we expect to see fewer visits to hospital, as conditions are identified and managed at an early stage.”
Jack Sharp, Executive Director of Service Strategy and Development at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, added: “In being granted vanguard status, Salford Together – Salford’s Integrated Care Programme – was identified as undertaking early work that will lead the way and act as an example for delivering the NHS Five Year Forward View, published last October, which sets out a vision for the future of the NHS.
“This support package will help us to further take forward our radical and innovative approach to developing new models of care that meet the challenges we increasingly face.
“Having now fully extended the Integrated Care Programme for Older People across Salford, we are eager to continue our move to extend the programme to the adult population as a whole.
Samantha Jones, Director, New Care Models Programme, said: “We are pleased to be able to support Salford Together with both financial and practical support.
“The changes they have planned will help deliver a raft of benefits for patients, local people and staff. We are also supporting them to help spread good practice across the wider NHS and social care community.”
