Funding awarded to address health inequalities in the East Midlands
Three projects in the East Midlands have been awarded funding to help improve local people’s access to health innovations.
The national Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities project (InHIP), commissioned by NHS England’s Accelerated Access Collaborative team and the AHSN Network, offers funding to help Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) accelerate access to innovations for people experiencing health and care inequalities across clinical areas outlined in the Core20PLUS5. The five clinical areas outlined in this approach include - maternity, severe mental illness, chronic respiratory disease, early cancer diagnosis and cardiovascular disease.
Tracey Jackman, Head of Programme Delivery, East Midlands Academic Health Science Network said: “We are excited that three projects have been awarded funding in our region. We have worked closely with ICS leads to understand their populations and align strategies to target health outcomes to local needs. We will continue to work with ICSs as they implement their proposals and measure success in improving access to innovation and addressing health inequalities.”
The East Midlands projects are:
Northamptonshire Integrated Care System: Identification of undetected Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Hypertension (HTN) through community health screening within deprived, black and minority ethnic local populations.
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care System - Improving attendance to cardiovascular outpatient appointments for the South Asian population within the most deprived areas of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland reducing differentials within drug prescribing.
Lincolnshire Integrated Care System - Enhancing cardiovascular health for people within deprived, elderly, and rural populations to reduce the significant difference in cardiovascular-related mortality between the most and least deprived areas of Lincolnshire.
Further information is available on the East Midlands Acedmic Health Science Network web page.