Reducing Health Inequalities Around Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness - SMI Champion - Calderdale Cares Partnership

Reducing Health Inequalities around Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness programme.

The aim of this service is to support a reduction in health inequalities for people with SMI by increasing access to PHC and improving the quality of this experience. This one year, non-recurrent funding from NHS England will increase staffing capacity for targeted work across Calderdale by developing a leadership and training champion role that can consistently increase best practice across the PCN's.

This provision will work alongside existing staff, with a particular focus on Primary Care staff. The aim is to support and encourage practices to increase both access to and the quality of the physical health checks to reduce health inequalities for people with SMI. This increased support will encourage practices to use the available health information and co-designed resources, completion of Health Action Plans and to increase tests and interventions that reduce the risk of preventable health conditions.

High level objectives of the service are:

Specific service elements inc but not limited to:

The NHS E funding of approx. 110K, is non recurrent and an approach is proposed that supports building best practice and resources that will continue in the PCN's after the role has ended. Due to the specialist nature of this work, this would not be suitable for agency staff.

Severe mental illness (SMI) and physical health inequalities: briefing - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)