CountyDurhamCarePartnership

Praise from the Office of No.10 Downing Street for our integrated discharge plans, collaborative ways of working and committed, continuous improvement culture following a recent field visit. Read more: cdcarepartnership.co.uk/.../field-visi…...

Great news! We're a finalist in the 2023 HSJ Awards in the 'Best Place-based Partnership and Integrated Care Award' recognising our commitment to supporting vulnerable individuals & promoting integrated care. We’ll let you know how we get on at the awards in November! #HSJAwards

Happy 75th Birthday to the #NHS! We’d like to wish all of the staff and volunteers who work so tirelessly across our NHS services a very happy day, and thank you all for the amazing work you do! Find out more cdcarepartnership.co.uk

To celebrate World Social Work Week (20 to 24 March) a County Durham woman tells us how her own experiences influenced her decision to become a social worker. Read the full story: durham.gov.uk/.../Social-wor…...

Another great Partnership initiative from County Durham Care Academy working with local care providers to test out an innovative recruitment referral app which is bringing new people into a career in social care! Find out more: ow.ly/CZUe50MP72O

Great to see that our innovative work to develop an electronic referral and monitoring system for care homes has been recognised as an exemplar on the NHS Transformation Directorate website. transform.england.nhs.uk/key-tools-and-… @CDDFTNHS

Great to hear that our Shared Lives service run by @DurhamCouncil which supports people with learning disabilities and mental health needs across County Durham and Hartlepool, has been rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission. Find out more: ow.ly/OxU550M82HQ

Wonderful accolade for the work of our social work teams which has been recognised with a national award including a gold award for Supportive Social Work Employer of the Year. Well done! durham.gov.uk/.../National-s…...

On World Occupational Therapy Day, we are recognising the effective collaboration between health, social care and voluntary organisations across County Durham that is bringing real, positive improvement to people's health, wellbeing, and experience of care. #WorldOTday

Congratulations to our own Marion Ingleby who has won a @NHSEngland Digital and Data Award as part of the #YearOfTheDigitalProfession one of 8 winners chosen from over 300 digital technology professionals nominated. bit.ly/3RpdNOg

Today is World Mental Health Day and there are lots of ways you can be kind to your mind. Get a free Mind Plan today. #EveryMindMatters nhs.uk/every-mind-mat…

Great article by Michael Laing and Sarah Burns in Care Management Matters this month giving a County Durham perspective on how effective integrated working has helped to drive our ambition to further develop system-wide integrated models of care caremanagementmatters.co.uk/feature/workin…

The @CDCareAcademy works closely with our partners to offer training to care providers. @CDDFTNHS have been providing falls prevention training as part of this work. Any care homes interested in this training please get in touch! @falls_network #ThinkFalls #STPM @CDCarePartners

Great work by our GPs last month

A new Integrated Care Board takes on the role of our Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) today. The CCG has done a fantastic job in working in partnership, which we want to continue and grow, building on this new era of unprecedented collaboration. #HappierHealthierLives

Lovely photo of the Derwentside TAP & Locality Social Work team at their joint Jubilee celebrations with the District Nurses, Health visitors and of course the Her Majesty the Queen! Our TAP teams are joining up care delivery for the people of County Durham @CDDFTNHS

Great follow up workshop today between @DurhamCouncil and @CDDFTNHS Occupational Therapist to join up their work and streamlines services - some real progress has been made through close team work to improve patient outcomes showing how important #Partnershipworking is!

Today is #InternationalNursesDay where we celebrate the care, compassion and professionalism shown by all our amazing nursing teams across the Partnership. Watch a special video produced by colleagues @CDDFTNHS as a thank you. youtu.be/atiN80AH9xg

The County Durham Care Partnership is proud to be the main sponsor of the Northern Echo Health and Care Awards 2022. Don’t miss the live ceremony of Thursday 28 May at 7pm which honours our local Health and Care heroes. Good luck to all the finalist! sparqevents.live/health-and-car…

Working together is the best medicine! Find out how effective partnerships are improving health and social care outcomes for the people of County Durham twitter.com/DurhamCouncil/…