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A new video from Integrated Care Northamptonshire is highlighting the fantastic work of Teen Clinic Daventry, a dedicated service supporting the health and wellbeing of young people in the local community.

Teen Clinic Daventry is for anyone aged 11 to 18 who lives or goes to school in the Daventry area. Monthly drop-in clinics are held in the town giving young people the opportunity to stop by and talk about any mental, physical and sexual health issues with the team of professionals from a range of disciplines.

Teen Clinic Daventry is supported by a number of local organisations, including Daventry Town Council, West Northamptonshire Council, NHFT, Service Six, Northamptonshire Children’s Trust, MIND and local GP practices, secondary schools and businesses.

Each session is staffed by a GP, a young people’s counsellor, a sexual health outreach worker, a school nurse and a youth support practitioner. This means that young people attending the clinic can see a number of different professionals during a single visit – so they get the best possible experience of integrated care with no need for appointments or waiting lists.

Young people have been heavily involved in setting up and developing the clinic, including establishing a wellbeing-related theme for each monthly session.

Based on feedback from young people, the Teen Clinic Daventry team are working to secure funding to operate the service on a more regular basis while guaranteeing its future for the longer term.

Go behind the scenes of Teen Clinic Daventry and find out more about how it all began, how it works – and hear from a few of the young people who are benefiting from the service.

 

Read WATCH: How Teen Clinic Daventry is supporting young people’s health and wellbeing…

Are you a newly qualified GP (within 12 months post CCT) working as a salaried GP or Partner within Northamptonshire? If so, you may be interested in our new to practice Fellowship Programme.

What is the Fellowship Programme?

• A two-year programme of support, available to all newly qualified doctors and nurses entering General Practice in substantive roles.
• A combination of support, networking, PCN portfolio working, learning and development.
• Funded for up to 1 session per week (pro-rata based on 9 session FTE) to complete fellowship activities.

What does the Fellowship Programme involve?

Support & Networking:

• Induction
• Mentorship
• Coaching
• Peer Support

Learning & Development:

• Practice management skills
• Leadership
• Quality Improvement
• Mentoring, supervision & coaching skills
• Remote working skills

Portfolio working:

• Opportunities for experience
• Integrated working

The GP Lead for the General Practice Fellowship Programme Northamptonshire is Dr Harriet Pomeroy so please get in touch at h.pomeroy@nhs.net for further information.

You can also send any queries to Northamptonshire Primary Care Training Hub at enquires.nth@nhs.net.

Learn more about the programme by visiting: www.northantstraininghub.nhs.uk/your-professional-development/development-programmes/gp-fellowship-programme

 

Read Northamptonshire GP Fellowship Programme…

Leadership Matters Conversations are back up and running after our summer break. We are excited to be starting with a session all about women in leadership from Sam Allen, CEO of North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB). Join us on Tuesday 19 September at 10:30am.

In this session Sam will be talking about why it’s important to have women in leadership roles. Sam will explore the idea and role of allies for supporting women in the workplace as well.

Sam Allen is an experienced NHS CEO and joined North East and North Cumbria to set up the ICB in January2022. Sam is also the Chair of the NHS confederations’ Health and Care Women Leaders Network, a leadership fellow at ST George’s House, a trustee of the Charted Management Institute and a member of The Kings Fund General Advisory Council.

To register your interest for this event please fill out complete the online registration form and we will send the details of the teams meeting directly to your inbox.

We are excited to welcome Sam to our Leadership Matters Conversations session and look forward to hearing her expertise on women in leadership. Join us on Tuesday 19 September at 10:30am

Register here

Read ICN welcomes Sam Allen to kick start new season of Leadership Matters Conversations.…

A special conference dedicated to baby and pregnancy loss, and how people have been supported through their experience, is taking place in October.

Baby Loss Awareness Week 2023 runs from Monday 9 October to Sunday 15 October and there will be a special in-person Baby Loss Awareness Conference, organised by Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), on Thursday 12 October from 9am to 3pm at Duston Community Centre, Pendle Rd, Northampton NN5 6DT.

The conference is open to health professionals and the public and will be hosted by the Maternal Loss Psychology Service (MLPS) – formerly known as the Maternal Mental Health Service.

The event will share more about the service, and what interventions are available for people experiencing mental health difficulties associated with baby/pregnancy loss. This includes anyone who is currently pregnant following previous baby/pregnancy loss, or who has lost a baby or pregnancy in the last 12 months.

Attendees will hear from health professionals from the service, and from people with lived experience of baby loss who have been supported by the service.

Dr Kirsty Harris, NHFT’s Specialist Perinatal Consultant Clinical Psychologist said: “We’re inviting all professionals who work with parents and families, who have experienced baby/pregnancy loss, and those who have been affected by, or interested in developing their understanding of this to come along to this event and find out what interventions are available for people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties associated with baby loss.”

To attend the conference, please find the Eventbrite registration link here: https://tinyurl.com/4mura5ds

Read People invited to attend baby loss support conference…

The July 2023 edition of ICN Today, Integrated Care Northamptonshire's e-newsletter for health and care colleagues, stakeholders and the wider community, is now available to read online.

In this edition we look back on another busy month when, in the same week, we hosted our successful Virtual Wellbeing Festival (available to watch back on-demand now!) and celebrated the 75th birthday of the NHS across the county.

We bring you updates on our Recovering Independence Bed Unit which is now fully open at Turn Furlong, national awards success for our system-wide remote monitoring project, how you can apply the new ICN Digital Skills Academy, and the launch of the new Northamptonshire Anchor Organisations Network.

We also focus on your stories as we mark South Asian Heritage Month and National Co-production Week – while this month it's the turn of ICB Chief Medical Officer Matt Metcalfe to take on the Three in 60 Challenge!

Find all this and more in the July 2023 edition of ICN Today.

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Read July edition of ICN Today newsletter now published…