Farmers in Gloucestershire are being encouraged to come forward with health concerns
The Nurse on Tour Team will take mobile health support and information directly to the Gloucestershire farming community. The NHS Information Bus is taking the Nurse on Tour team (a Gloucestershire Primary Care Training Hub initiative which includes student nurses...
Publication of the Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Plan
“Partnership working is essential in order to make further progress, acknowledging that many of the challenges facing urgent and emergency care services can only be overcome by working together and are a shared responsibility. We welcome publication of the national...
Gloucestershire’s Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service receives national accolade
Gloucestershire’s Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) Service, provided by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), has been successful in achieving the Royal College of Physicians Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services Accreditation. This national accreditation provides independent and impartial recognition that the service...
Changes affecting NHS Integrated Care Boards
We wanted to provide a further update on organisational development affecting NHS Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and how this impacts on Gloucestershire. As we shared in a background briefing on 12 May, we have provisionally chosen a preferred cluster partner...
Working together to help people with disabilities find housing that meets their needs
NHS Gloucestershire is working with Gloucestershire County Council and the county’s housing partners to introduce an Accessible Housing Register (AHR) to help people with disabilities find social housing which meets their needs. The Accessible Housing Register displays how accessible the...
Hundreds of families in Gloucestershire using innovative Lumi Nova app
Children across Gloucestershire, and their parents, carers and teachers, are feeling the benefits of an innovative digital approach to tackling anxiety. The Lumi Nova app, which combines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques with an easy to follow challenge game, has been...
Tailored Support Helps Combat Isolation for Carers in Stroud and Berkeley Vale
GP practice teams have been developing ways of proactively identifying carers in the Stroud and Berkeley Vale area in order to offer them tailored help and support. Following a pilot project, around 1,000 new carers were identified across GP practices...
Stakeholder briefing: ICB organisational development update
We are writing to provide an update on organisational development affecting NHS Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and how this impacts on Gloucestershire. As you will be aware, over the last few months, both NHS England and the Department of Health...