Harrow BBP website video

Summary

The video highlights Harrow's diverse community, healthcare structure, and integrated care system. It emphasizes the Harrow Borough-Based Partnership's goals of reducing health inequalities, enhancing care infrastructure, and improving health outcomes. Key organizations like CLCH, CNWL, and Harrow Council collaborate to provide mental and physical healthcare, adult social care, and support for children. The video addresses local health challenges, such as high diabetes rates and health disparities, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. The overarching aim is to create a healthier, more integrated community by working together across sectors.

Takeaways

• 🌍 Harrow has a diverse population of 261,000, with 287 ethnicities and 86 languages spoken.
• 🏥 Harrow is part of the Northwest London Integrated Care System and has 32 GP surgeries organized into five Primary Care Networks (PCNs).
• 🤝 The Harrow Partnership unites health, social care, community, and voluntary sectors to improve residents' well-being.
• ⚖️ Reducing health inequalities, enabling integrated care, and transforming care pathways are the partnership's main goals.
• 🏨 Major health providers in Harrow include Central London Community Healthcare Trust, CNWL NHS Trust, and London Northwest Hospital Trust.
• 🦷 Harrow faces challenges such as high diabetes rates, tooth decay in children under five, and lower vaccination and cancer screening rates.
• 👵 Hospital admissions due to falls in older people are higher than average, and many carers in Harrow feel socially isolated.
• 💰 Harrow has pockets of both affluence and deprivation, with health disparities made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis.
• 📊 The partnership is committed to using data and a population health management approach to tackle health inequalities and provide better care.
• 👂 The partnership emphasizes listening to residents to help them live longer, healthier, and happier lives by collaborating across sectors.

Q & A

What is the population of Harrow and how diverse is it?

Harrow has a population of 261,000 people, comprising 287 different ethnicities and with 86 different languages spoken.

What is the role of the Harrow Borough-Based Partnership?

The Harrow Borough-Based Partnership aims to improve health and well-being by reducing health inequalities, enhancing infrastructure for integrated care, and transforming care pathways.

Which organizations make up the Harrow health partnership?

The partnership includes Central London Community Healthcare Trust, Central and Northwest London NHS Trust, London Northwest Hospital Trust, Harrow Council, Primary Care Networks, Public Health, Harrow Health Community Interest Company, St. Luke's Hospice, and Harrow Together.

What are some of the health challenges Harrow faces?

Harrow has higher-than-average rates of diabetes, tooth decay in children under five, lower child vaccination rates, lower adult cancer screening rates, and higher hospital admissions for falls among older people.

How does health inequality manifest in Harrow?

Men in deprived areas live 4.5 years less than their affluent counterparts, while women in these areas live 5.2 years less. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these inequalities, particularly affecting deprived areas and minority communities.

What strategies is the Harrow Health and Care Partnership using to reduce health inequalities?

The partnership is embedding a population health management approach, focusing on prevention, using data to identify health issues and monitor progress, and involving residents as equal partners in decision-making.

What types of services does Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust provide in Harrow?

The trust provides community-based services such as district nursing, physiotherapy, podiatry, rapid response, and management of long-term conditions.

What role does adult social care play in Harrow?

Adult social care supports individuals to maintain their independence and well-being through home care, day centers, reablement services, care homes, and adaptations for homes. It also supports informal carers.

How do Primary Care Networks (PCNs) operate in Harrow?

Harrow has five Primary Care Networks where GP surgeries collaborate to enhance resilience and deliver services at scale, offering care across the lifespan and managing both acute and long-term conditions.

What is the role of the voluntary and community sector in Harrow’s health and social care system?

The voluntary sector plays a vital role by providing community-based care, advocating for marginalized communities, and offering services like social prescribing, community transport, and support for unpaid carers.