As part of a new pilot which has been funded by NHS Charities Together, East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) is launching a new service which aims to capture our patients who fall under the radar when it comes to non-medical unmet needs. Over the course of a shift our crews visit many patients and are in a prime position to observe when they are struggling. This could be for example with loneliness or support to remain independent.
Our crews do their best to try to address these issues where they can but are often left wishing they could have done more, especially whilst the service is under extreme pressure.
The Unmet Needs Project aims to plug this gap by offering referrals to local authorities, charities and outreach groups across our Trust’s regions. Examples of where we are looking to help are (but not limited to) carer support, housing, dementia, wellbeing, addiction recovery, budgeting, poverty, energy bills, bereavement support etc. However, whilst we have a good idea of what unmet needs our patients experience, we recognise that unmet needs is a vast area.
Crews will be able to complete a simple referral form which will be picked up by the unmet needs team, they in turn will contact the patient or family member to signpost them to a service who will be able to support.
We are extending our current Directory of Services (DOS) and we are keen to include as many local projects as we can to better support our patients. EEAST covers Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. We believe as a regional player we can tap into the local resources to make a difference.
We want to keep our patients safe, well and at home and we will do anything we can to keep them that way. By working together, we can all make a difference.
If you have any further questions or useful contact information, we would like to hear from you and if you wish to be included in our Directory of Service (DOS) please email: unmetneeds@eastamb.nhs.uk
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Overview
Multiply is a new Central Government 3-year scheme to increase adult numeracy skills (19+), funded by the Department for Education and delivered through Local Authorities. At the end of June, Essex County Council submitted its Multiply investment plan – emphasising applying Maths to real life situations. Essex was awarded a £7.9m Multiply Grant agreed and the First Year allocation is £2.4m.
Multiply in Essex
Multiply supports Everyone’s Essex commitments on Good Jobs, Future Growth, Levelling Up, and Lifelong Learning. It also allows good join-up with Education (e.g. parents’ numeracy skills and Year of Numbers); health/social care (via Anchors); and new work on Financial Wellbeing and the Cost of Living. In Essex, NVQ3 qualifications are 8 percentage points lower than the national average. In addition, Essex is 114th out of 151 top tier local authority areas (or 38 th from bottom) for such qualifications, and as well known, Maths is a key barrier to progression beyond NVQ2.
Essex Multiply Interventions
The training will be delivered by local colleges and training providers and is in the process of being commissioned. The courses will be based on the below areas:
Helping people use numeracy to manage their money. To help to address cost of living pressures. Linked to ECC’s Financial Wellbeing project.
Numeracy skills required in the workplace delivered with employers. Develop Maths skills pledges with partners, anchor institutions and businesses.
Helping parents increase their numeracy skills to help their children & help with their own progression. Bringing together providers & schools – linked to Year of Numbers 2023/24
Engaging the hardest to reach learners – eg. those not in the labour market, care leavers. Working with partners, skills providers & VCS supported by community grants.
Additional relevant maths modules embedded into other vocational courses
Confidence with numbers – tasters or access courses to overcome barriers to entry.
New intensive and flexible numeracy courses targeted at people without Level 2 maths, leading to a Functional Skills Qualification. Delivering a flexible progression route throughout the year – rather than being locked into a September start. (From April 2023)
How Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations can get involved with Essex Multiply
We have budgeted £1m of community grants over the 3 year period to award to voluntary and community sector and public partners to help to support individuals from all communities to engage with Multiply. You are the experts in relation to your client base, and we are approaching you as partners who meet people everyday who have challenges with numeracy. Being interested in what wraparound support you can offer to Essex Multiply, we ask you to consider the following questions:
• How can Multiply complement your existing offer?
• What new opportunities could it create?
• What cohorts do you work with? What places do you support?
• Would any of your staff benefit from Multiply interventions?
• Can your premises be used as delivery locations?
• How can we promote this to other organisations you work with in your area?
Essex Multiply Community Grants
Multiply will enable providers to deliver bite-sized training for adults and we are offering VCS and Partners opportunities to enhance your support to communities and cohorts, notably around the cost of living and life skills to support the Multiply provision.
The quid pro quo is that you will deliver additional outreach, triage and wraparound support and ultimately participants in Multiply training (c. 40-60 starts per £10k grant depending on the cohort – a unit cost of £167-£250).
If you already deliver numeracy training that works for your clients, we would be interested to hear about it)
Call for proposals for year 1 (up to March 2023):
Community Grants of up to £10k – closing date 11th November 2022
Community Grants will also be available in 2023-24 and 2024-25
Contact our Multiply team at multiply@essex.gov.uk for an application form
The Essex Alliance and Essex Map will be attending the Third Sector Summit at Basildon Sport & Leisure Club on Wednesday 2nd November (2-8pm).
You’ll be able to speak to us about joining the Essex Alliance newsletter, Third Sector information sharing and how best to promote your organisation on the Essex Map.
Other organisations you’ll see on the day include;
Networking opportunities with:
Active Essex
Adult Social Services
Basildon Council
Basildon Rotary
BBW CVS Funding and Development
BBW CVS Projects
BBW CVS Trustees
BBW Volunteer Network
Benjamin Mann – Senior Policy and Strategy Advisor
Billericay Street Pastors
Clarion Housing
Community Agents
Creative Basildon
East of England Ambulance Service Unmet Need Team
Enable East
Essex Community Foundation
Essex Fire and Rescue
Fowler Smith and Jones
Health Watch Essex
Interact
Lightbulb
National Lottery
NHS Commissioners
Peabody
Population Health
Safe4Basildon
Social Prescribers
Stockvale group
Swan Housing
The DBS Regional Outreach service
Plus…
Come and chat to the many likeminded organisations already telling us they are joining in!
…and not forgetting
Funding displays on cost-of-living funding and current opportunities to help support your organisation
Training Opportunities
and lots more!
Seminars
14:15 Building an Alliance Andy Archer Hamelin Trust
15:15 The Power of Data for Bid Writing Samantha Glover Health Watch Essex
16:15 DBS Checks Georgina Mitchel Disclosure and Barring Service
17:15 Bid writing Danny Lawrence BEM BCAC Gateway FM
he NHS and partners across Essex are calling on everyone to help ‘Do Your Bit’ this winter as hospitals, GPs, paramedics and care services prepare for a rise in demand for local services.The most recent data shows that the NHS was already experiencing record demand for emergency services, with ambulances across the region responding to over 55,000 face to-face-incidents in September alone. In the same month call handlers have responded to more than 112,000 contacts, including 83,000 calls from the 999 service.
GP services are also seeing a huge rise in demand. From the start of April and the end of July 2022, local GP services provided over 1.9 million consultations, an increase of 31,000 compared to the same time the previous year.
While the NHS is here for local residents when they need it, there are lots of things people can do to stay well and help others in your community. From accepting invitations for important winter vaccinations to reduce the risk of serious illness, choosing the right NHS service or wearing sturdy slippers to help prevent falls, local health and care partners are calling on everyone to do their bit.
To support residents, a new campaign has been launched to help share important information about how the public to do their bit and take action to look after themselves, loved ones and the local NHS.
To mark the launch, the local NHS and wider health and care partners are encouraging local people to subscribe to FREE winter advice.
Subscribers will receive regular information about how people can support the #DoYourBit movement with useful tips and advice from local GP, Dr Anna Davey.
Dr Anna Davey, local GP leader for NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board said: “Every part of the health and care system is currently under pressure treating and supporting increasing numbers of people right across the board. Our staff are doing their very best to make sure everyone can get the care they require but prevention is better than cure. There are many ways local people can protect themselves and others from ending up needing to call on local NHS services.
“This is an increasingly tough time for everyone and we appreciate how difficult it can feel for the public at the moment. However, by accepting invitations for FREE winter vaccinations and understanding all the different ways they can do their bit will allow us to care for the most seriously ill patients.”
We warmly invite you to London City Hall on 21 November 2022 to take part in a big conversation about the potential of new service models to improve outcomes in Adult Social Care.
Join us for a chance to step out of your day-to-day job, be inspired by how others are working to tackle big challenges and think creatively with like-minded colleagues.
About the Day
Adult Social Care is under enormous pressure. Budget constraints are severe and demand is growing. Both social care professionals and the people they serve report that the quality of outcomes is often not where they would like them to be.
Solving these problems will require more than incremental change or just improving the digital tools used by social care professionals. We need to radically rethink the way ASC needs are met: helping prevent needs from arising in the first place and finding more effective ways to support people when they do need help.
In response, LOTI is hosting this innovation day for Adult Social Care professionals and their third and private sector partners to explore the possibility of developing new service models. Participants will learn and be supported to think about radical new approaches to meeting social care needs. The focus will be on delivering better outcomes in more sustainable ways over the long term, using all the tools, approaches and methods that are available in the internet era. The event will be followed by a £200k innovation fund to incentivise, select and pilot the most promising ideas for new service models.
Why attend?
Meet with like-minded people in the public, third and private sectors who want to bring about change
Hear guest speaker, Paul Najsarek, Non-Executive Director, South London ICS
Visit an expo of organisations that addressing needs in radically different ways
Learn about LOTI’s framework for thinking about new service models
Work in groups to develop ideas for how things could be done differently
Find out about LOTI’s New Service Models Innovation Fund and how to apply
Who should attend?
We warmly invite Adult Social Care professionals, from directors to those with front-line experience, to join us and share their ideas.
What do I need to know?
The event opens at 9.30am for a 10.00am start. The event will close at 4.30pm.
Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided. If you have any special dietary requirements, please let us know on this registration form.
A detailed agenda will be provided closer to the event. More details can be found on the LOTI website and in this slide deck.
We are urging organisations across Essex to apply for our new Community Winter Warmth and Welcome Spaces Fund.
Launched today, the £100,000 fund offers grants of up to £1,000 so organisations can create new spaces or activities, or extend their existing services.
The fund is open to charities, clubs or associations, community interest companies and town and parish councils.
Grants can be used for things like equipment to run new activities, venue or catering costs, operational costs including utilities, and staff or volunteer expenditure.
Cllr Louise McKinlay, ECC Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Community, Equality, Partnerships and Performance, said: “We know people across the country are struggling at the moment and helping tackle the cost of living crisis is a key priority for Essex County Council.
“Our new Community Winter Warmth and Welcome Spaces Fund will provide funding to organisations, so they can better support those in need in their communities.
“This might be by opening up somewhere warm for people to go this winter or offering activities for them to enjoy inside a safe and welcoming space.
“We hope this fund will provide support for those most in need, but also bring communities closer together and help people feel connected with others in their area. I would urge groups across Essex to apply.”
The fund will be administered by the Essex Association of Local Councils (EALC) on our behalf.
As you find yourself recovering from COVID, you may still have symptoms that affect your body and mind.
These symptoms should get better over time and some may last longer than others, but there are things you can do to help.
Your COVID Recovery is here to support you and help you to understand what has happened and what you might expect as part of your recovery.
Information for family, friends and carers
Supporting your family member, relative or friend following their COVID illness can be challenging.
You may be providing emotional and physical help in addition to all your other responsibilities.
This can be a very stressful time for you both and we hope the information within the website will give you reassurance and support during their recovery.
If you are interested in offering a warm space for your local community this winter, The Essex Map is offering you a space to list your organisational information as part of this initiative. Please register for your free listing on the Essex Map homepage. When developing your listing ensure you select the warm spaces category and warm spaces tag which makes it easier for users of the Essex Map to find your listing.
There is further information on how to set up a warm space, funding available to apply for and helpful resources on The Essex Map’s Warm Spaces page.