Healthy Ambitions Directory

Social Enterprise Support Centre (SESC) are putting together a directory of social enterprise service providers who provide services/products in line with the Healthy Ambitions Pathways. This information will then be shared with NHS Yorkshire and the Humber to assist with commissioning. The eight care pathways are:
Staying Healthy
Reducing alcohol abuse, tackling rising obesity and helping people quit smoking.

Maternity and Newborn Care
Encourage breastfeeding, reducing mothers smoking during pregnancy. Improve information for pregnant women and increase levels of consultancy and prioritise midwifery time. Improve the experience for women throughout pregnancy and delivery and improve the health and wellbeing of babies.

Long Term Conditions
Annual personal care plans, with more support for people to manage their own conditions. Better coordination of care and also better use of new technology to help self-care. There is to be a prevention of problems. There will be a reduction in unnecessary hospital admissions and will help to keep people healthier for longer.

Children’s Services
Improve children’s health and well being. Halt the rise in obese children and young people. Provide access to GP’s who are trained in the needs of children. Reduce asthma suffers admitted to hospital. Improve support for diabetics to control their condition. Improve services in the community and provide parents with better information and support and help with parenting skills

Planned Care
Improve access to diagnostic services. Better communications between GP’s and hospital doctors. Reduce time patients spend in hospital. Have appropriate cover for intensive care and specialist care in non-hospital setting and home monitoring.

Acute Care
Providing a wider range of services including pharmacies, urgent care centres. Develop self-care manuals; provide a single telephone number of local urgent care and out of hours care. Provide guidance for ambulance services to take people immediately to best location. To improve patient satisfaction and provide a better service. Make best use of staff and facilities. Save lives and reduce disability, strokes and heart attacks.

Mental Health
Modernise dementia services, link mental health teams to GP practises, invest in community mental health services. Provide quicker access to the right services and reduce waiting. Improve services for people of all ages, reduce inequalities and provide better outcomes.

End of Life Care
Provide clinical teams caring for patients, their families and carers. Establish single care co-ordinators. Skill professionals to deal with patients.

If you provide services that fit into any of the theses categories please download the application form http://www.sesc.info/healthsocialcare.php and return it to rachel.oddie@sesc.info