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Right Care, Right Place, Right Time - Collaborative Working for Innovation and Change
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On Thursday 27th May 2021, Sláintecare hosted it's 10th webinar in its series of webinars, titled 'Collaborative Working for Innovation and Change'.
This webinar was hosted by Dr. Gráinne Healy and was planned in partnership with IFIC Ireland (International Federation for Integrated Care) and the Health Service Executive. The webinar shared stories of projects that are bringing together people from across the health, care and community sectors. It also gave us a first look at the new Sláintecare Implementation Strategy and Action Plan 2021-2023 .
The theme of the tenth webinar was “Collaborative Working for Innovation & Change”. We featured presentations from four Sláintecare funded projects which are demonstrating collaborative working. These projects are great examples of innovation and change and are working to improve the experience of people who use our health and social care services:
The Exercise Effect - Integrating Exercise Practitioners into the Irish Mental Health Service
“The Exercise Effect”, providing prescriptive, professionally led and community-based physical activity interventions for people with mental health difficulties in Co. Wexford. This best practice recovery focused care initiative involves the Wexford Mental Health Service of South East Community Healthcare working in partnership with Sports Active Wexford (SAW), Wexford County Council sponsored community programme and supported by research from Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). The skilled Exercise Practitioner delivers support and tailored one-to-one and group-based physical activity to individuals in Mental Health Services (Rehabilitation and Recovery; Adult Community- Summerhill Wexford and Maryville New Ross; Psychiatry of Later Life and Child/Adolescent services (CAMHS)) services in South Wexford.
Paula Lowney, Service Reform Project Lead, Mental Health Services, South East Healthcare & Anna Flynn, Integrated Exercise Practitioner for Mental Health
StrokeLINK: Innovating Stroke Support - Mater Hospital
StrokeLINK innovates care after stroke by providing a holistic support system that will move with the patient through the acute phase and into the community via personalised education and support tools, and the support of two Stroke Clinical Nurse Specialists. Complementary digital and more traditional (e.g. paper-based) tools will be co-designed with patient representatives, healthcare professionals, interaction designers and a software provider. The tools will be customisable for patients in response to their specific needs at a particular moment in time.
Dr Michael Marnane Consultant Neurologist & Lauren McDunphy, Stroke Clinical Nurse Manager
WellComm Active Well Communities Connect - Cork Sports Partnership
WellComm Active is a community health and wellbeing initiative, coordinated by Cork Sports Partnership and supported by Cork Kerry Community Healthcare Health and Wellbeing. The aim of this initiative is to empower citizens to manage their own health and to support better health through healthy eating and increased physical activity among key populations in Cork. By providing care and support in the community the project aims to help people manage chronic illness themselves, avoid injury and disease, and, importantly, limit the need for hospital admissions. WellComm Active is a welcome support for people in their own community to improve their quality of life and give them tools to manage their health and wellness.
Eoin Kaar, Project Lead, Cork Local Sports Partnership
Arthritis Rehabilitation through the Management of Exercise and Diet with ESCAPE Pain (ARMED with ESCAPE Pain) - Our Lady's Hospital, Navan
This project will deliver arthritis rehabilitation through the management of exercise, diet and coping skills to reduce pain and improve function in patients with arthritic knees. The combination of weight management together with this education and exercise programme delivered in the early stages in primary care can provide a real alternative for patients with osteoarthritic knees. Provision of an additional weight management component to the already functioning programme in primary care will reduce or delay the need for onward secondary care referral.
Dr Brenda Monaghan, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist & Keelan O’Connor, Physiotherapist and Research Assistant