Have a look at this wonderful video from Living Well Partnership, Southampton, sharing their fun and lively group for people that need a bit of encouragement to get moving and to meet others.
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We were thrilled to be invited onto the Community Conversations podcast hosted by Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership to talk about our action research project, 'how to make health services better for people who are neurodiverse.
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Fishing? At a GP Practice?! Anything’s possible and at our recent Collaborative Practice Network meeting we heard all about this and a host of other new services that have been developed by practice teams and their champions.
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A new report commissioned by the NHS Leadership Academy highlights what it takes to adopt innovation in the NHS. A must-read for anybody planning to bring new ways of working into their services.
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Alyson McGregor, Director of Altogether Better and a member of the Social Prescribing Network celebrates the remarkable changes introduced within general practice over the last few years, to deliver a new model of care with social prescribing at its centre.
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Our National Director, Alyson McGregor, argues that when it comes to improving racial equality in the NHS workforce, it's not just as simple as paying people equally. A very conscious effort is needed to unpick the unconscious bias and institutional racism built into organisations.
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We've just published dates on our website for the next cohort of our popular Leadership Skills Development Programme starting in April 2024.
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A fantastic group from Southampton Central PCN joined the first session of our latest leadership skills programme today, commissioned by our partners at NHS South East Leadership Academy.
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The government have published new research indicating a direct correlation between loneliness and mental health distress.
These new revelations come after a study analysed mental health wellbeing and the impacts of loneliness over a sustained period by investigating what types of people suffered from loneliness the most, and if the risk factors had changed or not.
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Join us for a short webinar to find out why doing more of the same might get you more of the same! If you’re up for it, and want to work differently, Altogether Better can support you to as you develop your Enhanced Access Plans in a way that will reduce demand and increase capacity in your PCN.
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Our action research project with West Yorkshire & Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, co-led by Fischer Associates, looks at how to support the development of kinder, more compassionate and more effective health services with people who are neurodiverse.
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We were delighted to see Altogether Better's work with over 130 GP practices in the UK cited as an example of coproduction in action in a recent issue of BMJ Leader.
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We've just opened up booking on the next rounds of our popular ‘Leadership skills for social prescribing programme’. This is delivered online over two days, equipping you with the tools, resources and capability to improve the services you offer.
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A report of the outcomes and key learning from a programme of work which supported GPs, Practice Managers and their teams from 27 GP practices across Dorset to build the leadership skills to deliver and lead Collaborative Practice.
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Altogether Better was invited by the Alliance for Healthier Communities, Ontario, to work with seven community health centres across the province and volunteer health champions from their communities. One of these teams recently won the Transformative Change Award 2020.
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Alyson McGregor, Altogether Better’s National Director, was recognised in the New Year Honours with the award of an MBE for services to Collaborative Practice and Service Development in the NHS.
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Health writer and commentator Roy Lilley joined us on a visit to Blackmore Vale Partnership in Gillingham, Dorset, on what he describes as his road to Damascus. “If there’s a Holy Grail, I think I might have found it…social prescribing doesn't really do it justice. It's a partnership philosophy. It's not us and them, it's them with us…..this approach is so totally unique, there is nothing in the management lexicon that helps to describe it“
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This CBC article tells the stories of people who participate in the social programmes at one of 11 sites across Ontario taking part in a pilot project to test social prescribing influenced by our model of Collaborative Practice.
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Director of Altogether Better, Alyson McGregor, talks to Henry Aughterson from the MARCH Network about Collaborative Practice, and the genuine involvement of communities in GP services on this podcast.
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Our Director, Alyson McGregor, speaks to patient champion and charity leader, Jeremy Taylor for the Health Servce Journal about why she thinks Collaborative Practice could help to save the NHS.
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