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The Managed Care Network is an alliance of county-wide community groups and organisations delivering a variety of support activities, services and projects which provide people with structure and choice in their lives contributing to individuals’ emotional wellbeing within their own community.

The Mental Health Promotion Fund that underpins this network is a partnership which has historically been provided by Lincolnshire County Council and Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT). The management of the network has now been handed over from LPFT to Shine Lincolnshire, and we excited to announce the launch of Wave 11 funding.

The funding aims to support people to live independently in their own homes and communities with access to a range of activities and services that promotes outcomes such as reduced social isolation, a safe non-judgemental space to support recovery and promote good mental health. Projects shall generally contribute to improved health, wellbeing, independence and choice for people with a mental illness including serious mental illness.  This involves working alongside people with lived experience & partner agencies to ensure equitable access to community support services across the County.

Activities can include peer to peer support, sporting and other outdoor activities, creative art sessions, learning different skills, developing coping strategies, meeting new people, and taking on challenges.

Applications will also be considered which support project continuation, along with those that are able to demonstrate future service/business sustainability.

The application period will open on Monday 19^th July for 5 weeks. We are holding information sessions where we will share all the information groups & organsiations will need to make a successful application.

All sessions will be via MS Teams:

Tuesday 13^th July: 9am-10am

Wednesday 14^th July: 1pm-2pm

Thursday 15^th July: 10am-11am

Friday 16^th July: 3pm-4pm

Friday 23^rd July: 9am-10am

Monday 2^nd August: 10-11am

Monday 9^th August: 3-4pm

If you would like to register for one of the events, please email your name and contact details to: funding@lincsshine.co.uk

Alternatively, if you are unable to attend any of the sessions but would like further information, please email your contact details and which area you are working in and we will arrange for all relevant information to be shared with you.

If you have any further questions, please contact Rachel Cook, Operations Director: rachel@lincsshine.co.uk

“Provider collaboration will help us to improve the health and wellbeing of our population by harnessing our collective power at the level of system and locally.  On behalf of the Lincolnshire Provider Collaborative Steering Group we invite you to join us for a virtual ‘drop in’ event on 8 July to continue the conversation about how we want to achieve this together.

The programme for the day is attached and includes a series of interactive, informative and inclusive webinars throughout the day that you can join at a time convenient to you.

Please share this invitation widely with those people in your teams who might be interested in joining the conversation.

Many thanks,

Mark Brassington”

Senior Responsible Officer Lincolnshire Provider Collaborative Steering Group

Director of Improvement and Integration/Deputy CEO United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

To find out more about the event, click on the download button below to read the attached information:

On behalf of the Lincolnshire Provider Collaborative Steering Group they hope you will join them for a virtual ‘drop in’ event on 8 July. The format will be a series of different webinars throughout the day – they will come out with more detail soon. They are designing the day to be interactive, informative and inclusive and it will be the start of a series of conversations about provider collaboratives.

They would like you to hold the date in your diaries and share this invitation widely with those people in your teams who may be interested in finding out more.

Lincolnshire County Council want to understand people’s experiences of the services they provide to support people’s wellbeing. They have asked HWLincs, who manage the Healthwatch Contract in Lincolnshire to help them with this.

LCC are particularly interested in the views of people who may have extra needs including Physical and Learning Disabilities, Autism and Mental Health and equally interested in family members or carers who support a person with these conditions. 

Your views about these services are important whether positive or negative as they will help Lincolnshire County Council plan and deliver services that make a difference to people’s lives.

The services involved are:  Wellbeing Lincs; One You Lincolnshire; Lincolnshire Carers Service and Connect to Support.

There is a short survey that we would like you to complete to tell us if you have heard about these services and if you have used them, what you think about these services and did they meet your needs?

The survey can be found at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5WGPKM9.

If you need support in completing this survey please contact Tim by email: tim@hwlincs.co.uk or by phone: 07436 581995 who will support you  in sharing your views.

Anyone can complete the survey, but we would be particularly interested to hear from people who feel they fit into one of the groups mentioned above.

We are aiming to set up focus groups for users of each of the services being reviewed and If you are interested in joining a one-off focus group to explain your views in more detail, please get in touch with Tim at HWLincs directly by using one of the above methods of contact.

SAVE THE DATE:  Wednesday July 14th 2021 10 am – 12 pm online public event

The YourVoice@healthwatch next public event will be held on Wed 14 July 2021 from 10 am to 12 noon and their theme is:  SOCIAL CARE.

This will be held as an online session (via Zoom / MS Teams) and is an opportunity for you to ask questions of a Panel in Social Care and receive up to date information.

If you would like to book a place or find out more information, please contact Oonagh M Quinn via: Oonagh@hwlincs.co.uk or  07436 581 997.

“Bring a Friend” they encourage you to share this with family and friends, as well as colleagues.

Questions for the Panel send in questions for the Panel before the Event and ask your question directly to the Panel on the day.  Not able to attend, not a problem, send in your question and it will be asked on your behalf.

Following the successful allocation of Community Asset Development Funding across the four Neighbourhood Team accelerator Sites (Gainsborough, Lincoln South, Grantham & Boston) we are pleased to announce the next round of funding will be opening shortly across 9 Primary Care Network (PCN) areas.

For further information on PCNs, please see: Primary Care Networks: Lincolnshire Primary Care Network Alliance (lpcna.nhs.uk)

The funding aims to support people to live independently in their own homes and communities with access to a range of activities and services that promotes outcomes which support recovery and good mental health; and generally, contributes to improved health, wellbeing, independence, and choice for people with a mental illness including serious mental illness. This involves working alongside people with lived experience & partner
agencies to ensure equitable access to community support services across the County and developing Community Assets to provide a wide range of services and activities for Social Prescribers to “tap into”.

The application period will open on Monday 17th May for 5 weeks. We are holding information sessions where we will share information on the projects who have successfully received funding as well as all the information groups & organsiations will need to make a successful application.

All sessions will be via MS Teams:
Tuesday 11th May – 9am-10am
Friday 14th May – 9am-10am
Friday 14th May – 3pm-4pm
Friday 21st May – 2pm -3pm
Wednesday 26th May – 3pm-4pm
Wednesday 2nd June – 9am-10pm

If you would like to register for one of the events, please email your name and contact details
to: funding@lincsshine.co.uk.

Alternatively, if you are unable to attend any of the sessions but would like further
information, please email your contact details and which area you are working in and we will
arrange for all relevant information to be shared with you.

If you have any further questions, please contact Rachel Cook, Operations Director:
rachel@lincsshine.co.uk

The government has recently released details on its proposals to reform the public health system in England to ensure it is fit for purpose to meet future challenges.  The Transforming the Public Health System Policy Paper sets out the following structural changes: 

• Establishing a new UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) which brings together the health protection capabilities of Public Health England (PHE) and NHS Test and Trace. 
• Transferring the health improvement, prevention and healthcare public health functions of PHE to a new Office for Health Promotion (OHP) under the professional leadership of the Chief Medical Officer. 
• Strengthening NHS’s role in prevention and population health.  At a local level this will be driven by Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) as set out in the White Paper on health and care. 

The attached briefing paper provides further details on the proposals.   

Further announcements are expected over the coming months as the current PHE functions are transferred to the new organisations.  To help inform and shape the next steps DHSC are asking for comments and feedback on a series of questions (appendix A in briefing paper) by 26 April 2021. 

We would like to submit a Lincolnshire system response to the consultation, which the Public Health Division will coordinate.  To help collate the response, a feedback response form is also attached.  Please can you send your comments to alison.christie@lincolnshire.gov.uk.

Boston College’s Distance Learning courses allow you the flexibility to study wherever you are, arranging your studies around your work and family life. The courses provide you with a convenient way to gain or develop existing skills without attending College full time.

The College offers over 45 different Distance Learning courses in a variety of course areas including: Business, Computing, Digital Skills, Early Years and Schools, Employment and Skills Training, Health and Social Care, Sport and, Transport and Logistics. All of the courses are FREE* and are accredited by leading awarding bodies. You will be provided all of the learning materials you need to complete the course, as well as having a variety of learning methods available to you, ranging from online, workbook based or a combination, depending on your personal learning style and your course of choice.

If you want to learn independently at your own pace, Distance Learning could be the learning path for you!

*subject to eligibility – If your postcode is located in one of the following areas, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City, Cambridge and Peterborough, Tees Valley and West Midlands we regret to inform you that we are not able to offer free courses as you will not be eligible for course funding.

If you would like more information please visit: https://www.boston.ac.uk/adult-learners/distance-learning/

The Centre for Ageing Better want more people to be able to live independently in their homes for longer.

They would like to understand the challenges that people aged 50 to 70 years in Lincolnshire face when trying to improve their homes. The information they learn will help us to better the user experience and routes to safe, accessible and decent homes.

The Centre for Ageing Better, in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council, is holding a series of workshops with stakeholders who support people aged between 50 and 70 years in Lincolnshire.

They are keen to hear from the broadest range of service providers (including people from the voluntary sector and local government) because they know that people in Lincolnshire access many different services – some directly and some indirectly related to housing. In this project, they are taking a wider systems approach and therefore want to collect information from across the system.

These workshops aim to collect information about the broader issues that people in Lincolnshire face when trying to improve their homes (including but not limited to service signposting, accessing information and guidance, receiving financial advice, digital access experiences and the impacts of the broader environment surrounding homes). They’re also looking to gather information about potential solutions to these challenges. They will be using a person centered approach, incorporating the Lincolnshire based pen portraits/ personas from the recent IPSOS Mori research.

The workshops have been scheduled to take place via zoom on 29th March 10am-1pm and 21st April 10am-1pm.  If you would like to attend please reply to amy.thomas@ageing-better.org.uk to receive a zoom link.