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		<title>Byw Bywyd Gyda Phoen – Living Life with Pain: A Digital E-Learning Pain Management Programme</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Managing pain withan e-learning programme.</p>
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<h4><strong>Hywel Dda University Health Board with industry partner, OSP Healthcare</strong></h4>
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<p>Persistent non-malignant pain is estimated to affect 30-50% of the UK population, almost 28 million adults<a href="https://www.bevancommission.org/projects/byw-bywyd-gyda-phoen-living-life-with-pain-a-digital-e-learning-pain-management-programme/#ref-1">[1]</a>. This is predicted to increase with an aging population<a href="https://www.bevancommission.org/projects/byw-bywyd-gyda-phoen-living-life-with-pain-a-digital-e-learning-pain-management-programme/#ref-2">[2]</a>.</p>
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<p>Currently available services are struggling to cope with existing demands in the HDUHB area, where a higher population aged between 55 and 79<a href="https://www.bevancommission.org/projects/byw-bywyd-gyda-phoen-living-life-with-pain-a-digital-e-learning-pain-management-programme/#ref-3">[3]</a> and large rural area only increase demand. Our service has improved this situation, but over 50% of patients, despite opting in, don’t feel able to attend a face:face pain management programme.</p>
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<p>Improving access to evidence based self-management options is critical in meeting the needs of this population and in building social resilience. Failure to do so has significant psychological, economic, social and health care resource implications.</p>
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<p>Our project provides an innovative, prudent and sustainable way of meeting this need. A digital Pain Management Programme will help more people engage and improve their management of a debilitating lifelong condition.</p>
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<p>The aim of the project was to develop a sustainable product that would enable people living with pain to access high quality education and intervention as soon as is appropriate in their persistent pain journey.</p>
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<p>The digital e-learning Pain Management Programme (e-PMP) can be completed in Welsh or English, offering the people of Wales an opportunity to access their intervention in their chosen language. The e-PMP has the potential to be adopted by other Health Boards in Wales and further afield.</p>
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<p>The ability to offer the e-PMP at the earliest possible point in the person’s care would decrease demand for secondary pain services, increase provision for persistent pain intervention in primary care, and create an ability to use scarce resources more prudently.</p>
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<p>The impact would see a decrease in waiting times for assessment and provide an increase in choice of intervention for people who cannot, or choose not to engage with a face:face or virtual PMP. This is a very real challenge for us and many other pain services, as we consistently observe high levels of non-engagement. The reasons for this are various and include: limited rural transport availability; time constraints; mental health; physical health and mobility problems. With little other option available for these people, the likelihood of a re-referral into the system is high. The e-PMP would be a sustainable solution to addressing this and offering people more choice in their care.</p>
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<p>Honestly, we were challenged by many things this year, Covid-19 being a major factor with the redeployment of key stakeholders as well as the furloughing of staff. This halted progress for some months.</p>
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<p>The main challenge was realising the scale of the project. We quickly agreed that what we wanted to develop could not be achieved by creating an ‘app’ as initially thought. Close collaboration with our industry partner and a shared vision for producing a high quality product meant that we opted to develop an e-learning programme based on our existing PMP. This would then be delivered in a Learning Management System (LMS).</p>
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<p>The cost exceeded our budget and the project was paused whilst further funding was sought. The funding to complete the project was agreed in December 2020.</p>
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<p>As the project is still in development, we don’t have any outcomes to report as yet, however a breakdown of costings would suggest that if we were able to reduce the delivery of our face:face PMPs by half, we would be able to reinvest 1,260 hours / 168 clinical days of work per annum (including over 500 hours driving time) into the service – increasing our capacity to reduce waiting times for initial assessments and interventions.</p>
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<p>A research proposal is currently in the system, which will hopefully enable the efficacy of the e-PMP to be demonstrated as soon as the e-PMP is complete.</p>
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<p>We continue to believe that this product will have a positive impact on patient care, choice and enable more people to access high quality pain management education earlier in their journey with pain, which could influence their choices about living with pain, including activity levels, medication use and engagement with life. Understanding their pain will enable them to continue to live life with pain as opposed to allowing their pain to significantly impact on their life choices and trajectory.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">“We are really excited by this project and can see the potential impact it will have on people living with pain”</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">“The initial few modules look amazing! I can’t wait to try the whole programme once it’s available”</p>
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<p>The immediate next steps are to complete all 20 modules (10 Welsh and 10 English) and integrate the modules into a custom designed and built LMS.</p>
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<p>Once the e-PMP is complete we will test it’s functionality with service users and peers, making any amends required before beginning the study to evaluate its efficacy.</p>
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<p>Once we have data, we will be able to promote its use to other HBs in Wales and further afield.</p>
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<p>Being Bevan Exemplar has been a very rewarding experience. Not only has it provided a platform for us to develop our innovative and creative ideas and bring them to life, they facilitated our relationship with our industry partner, and allowed work to begin immediately – a process that would have routinely taken many years to come to fruition.</p>
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<p>The workshops and events that have been offered to us, and the relationships we have developed with the Bevan Commission team and personnel in our own HB have been invaluable. It has been an honour to be part of Cohort 5 and we would recommend this to anyone who enjoys hard work, creativity and taking chances in doing things differently.</p>
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<p>Ffion John: <a href="mailto:Ffion.M.John@wales.nhs.uk">Ffion.M.John@wales.nhs.uk</a></p>
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<p>Alec MacHenry: <a href="mailto:Alec.Machenry@wales.nhs.uk">Alec.Machenry@wales.nhs.uk</a></p>
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[1] Fayaz A, et al. BMJ Open 2016; 6:e010364. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010364</p>
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<p id="ref-2">[2] Elliott AM, Smith BH, Penny KI, et al. The epidemiology of chronic pain in the community. Lancet 1999;354:1248-52.</p>
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<p id="ref-3">[3] Hywel Dda University Health Board Demography Summary 2016. Public Health Wales Observatory.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Helen Howson]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Following collaborative working across the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust (WAST) through the WAST Improvement and Innovation Network (WIIN) Steering Group, it was agreed that a digital portal needed to be developed for staff to submit their ideas and project proposals. The WIIN Portal launched 25th March 2019 and has been accessible to all staff via the WAST intranet.</p>
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	<p>The WIIN Portal was developed based on feedback from engagement with staff and provides an accessible, user-friendly and consistent process for staff to submit suggestions and ideas for improvement proposals.</p>
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<p id="viewer-a1nua">When ideas are submitted, the WIIN Business Group, a multi-disciplinary team, convene to undergo a formal process of reviewing the ideas. The WIIN Business Group is a cross directorate team involving people with specialist experience and knowledge in improvement including two Improvement Advisors. A consistent method for sorting is utilised in the form of a scoring matrix.</p>
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<p id="viewer-552jv">A second review of those ideas deemed as clinical and appropriate is undertaken by the Clinical Improvement Team and the ideas are placed into their most appropriate categories (Research, Audit or Clinical Improvement).</p>
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<p id="viewer-cf12a">The overall aim of the WIIN platform was to implement a front facing ideas portal for all staff to access with their ideas to improve operational function and patient care.</p>
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<p id="viewer-7cmd3">This would include a framework and practical platform that would provide tools, guidance and support to all staff wanting to embark on an improvement or innovative project, promote opportunities for training and education, particularly IQT Bronze, and Silver level training, promote and encourage patient centered care and improvements directed at organisational issues &amp; priorities and promote improvement and innovative thinking through empowerment and permission to deliver projects and initiatives.</p>
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<p id="viewer-e8rf6">Historically, WAST staff have been duplicating ideas and projects, often implementing new ways of working in isolation from other areas of the Trust. This is because the Trust did not have a central focus on projects taking place and no one place to submit ideas. This has resulted in variation of processes across the Trust and repetition of work, often without any co-production. Therefore the aim was also to encourage co-production with all projects across and outside of the Trust, to reduce inappropriate variation and focus on patient/organisational priorities.</p>
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<p id="viewer-b6efq">Lessons learned from challenges during this project was a fundamental part of the process. The project spanned 3 Directorates, therefore initially reporting to 3 Senior Responsible Officers (SROs). Although working cross-directorate was extremely advantageous and necessary, it proved more useful, in relation to quick decision making, to report to one SRO.</p>
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<p id="viewer-cvaqm">Following the launch of the WIIN ideas portal momentum tended to wane, however it helped to have a full communications strategy that was implemented at the start of the project. In addition the WAST Communications Lead was extremely supportive throughout the programme.</p>
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<p id="viewer-eds2v">The WIIN website was built using the ‘NHS Howis’ system, Cascade. This system was difficult to navigate and limited in its applications. The intranet website ideally should be upgraded, utilising an expert source, if it is to reach its full potential. To keep the website as up to date as possible, one person is responsible for updates, which take place on a regular basis. In addition the system has now updated to Share Point.</p>
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<p id="viewer-4ro38">A benefits/measures plan was developed as part of the WIIN platform project charter, containing the expected benefits of the project and illustrating how these would be measured and assessed.</p>
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<li>Number of Ideas added to Ideas Warehouse</li>
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<li>Number of Small scale projects completed (tests for change)</li>
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<p id="viewer-e9oub">Moving forward, WAST have now updated their intranet site from Cascade to Sharepoint. This has allowed us to create a more user friendly WIIN web page. Clinical staff now have access to tablets and the majority of non-operational staff have the equipment to work from home, due to the pandemic, so this will allow staff to access the portal remotely until we can persue the development of an app.</p>
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<p id="viewer-6vq1h">The next steps will be to develop a WIIN digital dashboard on Qlik Sense which will collate the data responses for us, allowing Trust leads to access the information in real time and determine trends and themes.</p>
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<p id="viewer-e69a6">Our experience with the Bevan Commission has been extremely positive. We attended a number of their workshops and picked up new tools and skills that we could apply ourselves and share with our organisation, we also linked in with like-minded people working on their own projects. Throughout the pandemic we felt supported by the Bevan Commission team who helped us to keep the momentum going with our projects.</p>
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<p id="viewer-8v964">Jacqui Jones: <a href="mailto:jacqui.jones@wales.nhs.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">jacqui<strong>.</strong>jones@wales.nhs.uk</a></p>
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<p id="viewer-nbqq">Andeep Chohan: <a href="mailto:andeep.chohan@wales.nhs.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">andeep.chohan@wales.nhs.uk</a></p>
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<p id="viewer-5b7du">Jonathan Turnbull-Ross: <a href="mailto:jonathan.turnbull-ross@wales.nhs.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><u>jonathan.turnbull-ross@wales.nhs.uk</u></a></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Promoting health and well-being through community gardening with the 'Grow Well' initiative.</p>
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<p>We are a partnership between registered charity ‘Grow Cardiff’ and the South West Cardiff Primary Care Cluster, comprising 10 surgeries supporting patients in some of the most disadvantaged communities in Wales (Welsh Index for Multiple Deprivation (WIMD), 2019). Patients are referred through the cluster’s social prescribing pathway or self-refer to weekly, hyper local, therapeutic community gardening sessions run by Grow Cardiff which aim to engage those experiencing on-going physical or mental health difficulties, loneliness and isolation.</p>
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<li>Launch the Grow Well Project in Riverside, a densely populated, inner city area within the cluster, with a high BAME population and little green space. We wanted to engage local people in creating a therapeutic community garden in the grounds of Riverside Health Centre, home to two local GP practices and the Cardiff Dietetics team with the purpose of increasing patient health and well-being</li>
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<p>Grow Well resonates strongly with the prudent model of health in a number of ways. We ensure that patients are at the heart of its development. As key stakeholders they are equal partners co-producing every aspect of the project from garden design to session structure, evaluation tools and project development. They often present the project and its impact on their lives. Many patient volunteers have complex, multiple health and wellbeing needs and live in areas representing the most deprived 10% of all wards in Wales (WIMD 2019). As such the project places those with the greatest health needs first. The project enables equality of access – every patient across the cluster now has a local expression of the project on their doorstep.</p>
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<p>When Covid-19 hit, we thought the unthinkable and decided to change our DNA! Instead of patients coming to our gardens, we would go to them. Utilising existing strong partner networks and social media, we advertised home growing kits to patients in the cluster. Hundreds of local people got in touch. We posted ‘everything you need to grow at home’ kits to over 250 households and dropped 100 grow bags and plants to doorsteps, supported by instructions, videos and on-line groups.</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-center">Isla shared her experiences during this time through a blog post – <a href="https://www.bevancommission.org/post/isla-horton-rewiring-with-half-a-brain">read it here</a>.</p>
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<p>We developed a new partnership with South Riverside Community Development centre and helped forge a new city-wide growers network, Cardiff Growing Together, in response to the pandemic, which together gave away over 15,000 plants for local people to grow at home in Covid-considered community events.</p>
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<p>As many services and green spaces closed during lockdown, we engaged new local patients, over-coming Covid barriers to develop a new service, that enabled people who were self-isolating to grow at home. Many participants told us that being part of the project, engaging with nature and growing something, significantly impacted their mental health and well-being at an extremely difficult time.</p>
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<p>Due to lockdown restrictions we were unable to begin to develop a community garden in the Riverside Health Centre grounds. Instead, working with new partners we gave out hundreds of vegetable and herb plants to 256 households in Riverside, enabling patients to connect with nature and grow their own food. With permission we saved contact details of all participants who expressed an interest in further growing so that as lockdown restrictions ease we have a ‘ready-made’ group of patients who want to engage in the development of the Riverside Health Centre community garden.</p>
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<p>During lockdown the social prescribing referral pathway was significantly improved by the launch of ‘Elemental’, an on-line platform which enables a smooth pathway from patient consultation to the garden gate. Staff have been trained and referrals are in-coming.</p>
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<p>The next steps are to consolidate our work, to continue to re-engage with patients who participated in our lockdown programme and actively encourage them to take part in designing and co-creating a patients’ garden at Riverside Health Centre. We need to secure further funding to enable this.</p>
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<p>Grow Cardiff: Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/GrowCardiff">@GrowCardiff</a>, Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/growcardiff/">@GrowCardiff</a>, Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/grow.cardiff/?hl=en">grow.cardiff</a></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Helen Howson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A rehabilitation app for patients following Achilles tendon rupture.</p>
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<h4>Swansea Bay University Health Board with i<strong>ndustry partner, </strong>Yellow Sub Creative Ltd</h4>
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<p>Achilles tendon ruptures (snap / break of the Achilles tendon) are common. Management of this injury involves an extensive period of immobilisation (10 weeks) followed by an intensive period of rehabilitation (daily exercise regime) for up to 8 months.</p>
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<p>At a time of austerity in the NHS it has been difficult for physiotherapy resources to provide the level of support that patients would ideally like following this injury. The COVID-19 pandemic has additionally exacerbated this problem.</p>
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<p>Further to the feedback from our patients, we set out to develop a rehabilitation app which provides the patients with a daily educational platform and exercise program. Supplementing current physiotherapy care, with the app may potentially result in better support and therefore outcomes for patients as well as cost saving for the health board compared to the current service of limited physiotherapy.</p>
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<p>To our knowledge a rehabilitation App for Achilles rupture patients would be innovative in rehabilitation medicine. If found to be successful for the Achilles tendon rehabilitation the concept can be rolled out to other areas of orthopaedic and rehabilitation medicine.</p>
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<p>The objective of the project is to determine the impact of ‘Pop2Hop’ a rehabilitation App for Achilles tendon ruptures on both patients and the health board.</p>
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<p>To achieve this we will investigate the impact pre and post app upon:</p>
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<p>The development of the app has required overcoming a number of bureaucracy challenges, this has been achieved via extensive collaborate working: with a number of internal and external parties, including; The Bevan Commission, industrial partners, The Medical Health Regulatory Authority, patients , local leisure centres, the health board foot and ankle team (consultants and physiotherapists), legal team, research and development team, medical illustrations, information governance, IT, cooperative board and charity funds.</p>
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<p>The app is now in the final stages of development. Once complete we will investigate the impact of the app on patient outcome, satisfaction and complication rate as well as on the health board. Once this study is complete provided there are no adverse effects found the app will be launched on the app store. The app is not for profit and will therefore be free to download. Thanks to the support of the health boards charitable funds a Welsh version of the app will also be launched.</p>
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<p>Having failed on a number of occasions to develop the app via other avenues. I am extremely thankful to the Bevan Commission for agreeing to support this innovative piece of work. The professionalism of the Commission has been incredible. I have been provided with support at the highest level. Chris Martin my mentor in particular is thanked, for his willingness to part knowledge as well as providing me with support at every stage of the project. Myself as well as a number of departments in Swansea Bay Health Board have undoubtedly grown and learnt from being given this opportunity of exploring health technology as a solution to a rehabilitation problem. We are very lucky to have the Bevan Commission as a supporting party to NHS Wales.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Enhancing care with tailored pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with bronchiectasis.</p>
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<h4><strong>Swansea Bay University Health Board</strong></h4>
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<p>Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) is a multidisciplinary programme recognised as a key management strategy for those with chronic respiratory impairment.</p>
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<p>People living with bronchiectasis are offered generic PR programmes which focus heavily on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Unlike COPD, Bronchiectasis is in many cases idiopathic or linked to acute childhood respiratory illnesses like whooping cough meaning education on topics such as smoking cessation and inhaler technique are often irrelevant.</p>
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<p>Other than generic PR programmes, Bronchiectasis patients attend Respiratory Consultant and Respiratory Physiotherapy clinics, spending on average just 2 hours per year with healthcare professionals but would benefit from more input.</p>
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<li>Provide group exercise and tailored self-management education for people living with Bronchiectasis in a 6-week course.</li>
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<li>Provide a safe environment to encourage regular exercise and understand the benefits of an active lifestyle for those with Bronchiectasis.</li>
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<li>Provide understanding of the symptoms people are experiencing and strategies to control and manage these.</li>
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<li>Empower patients to manage their condition to prevent deterioration and maintain a higher quality of life.</li>
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<li>Provide a supportive peer environment to share experiences and a support group to learn within.</li>
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<p>The global COVID-19 pandemic impacted the programme with all face-to-face patient contact being cancelled in mid-March. We were in the 5th week of the second programme at that point.</p>
<p>Since then, a PR programme with a COPD cohort has been piloted with social distancing and increased infection control measures with success. However, venue suitability and cohort sizes have been impacted.</p>
<p>Patient referrals for this service came from well-engaged Respiratory Consultant-led clinics. We have seen the number of referrals reduce in line with the reduction of face-to-face clinics as a result of the pandemic.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">“The best part is you are with people who have the same problem, making you feel at ease.”<br />
“I don’t feel ill anymore.”<br />
“Given me the knowledge to control the condition, a more positive mind set and helped me feel better and in control.”<br />
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<p>Further feedback on education topics can guide what is most useful for people living with Bronchiectasis.</p>
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<p>We will explore the potential for a longer programme; for example eight weeks rather than the six-week model used by the majority of generic PR courses. This could provide an opportunity to see greater improvements in exercise tolerance and emphasise some of the learning topics.</p>
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<p>We aim to rollout across the health board to provide the service in more local communities.</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/document-library/guidelines/bronchiectasis/bts-guideline-for-bronchiectasis-in-adults/">British Thoracic Society Guideline for Bronchiectasis in Adults (2019)</a> noted a research recommendation to explore <em>the role of education, self management plans and who delivers pulmonary rehabilitation. </em>Our project can play a key role in this research.</p>
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<p>Being a Bevan Exemplar has taught me the importance of networking in pursuing your ideas and making them a reality.</p>
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<p>Huge thanks to Hayley Thomas for all her work in collating the data for this. Thank you to the Swansea Bay University Health Board Pulmonary Rehabilitation for their support and enthusiasm for this project. Special thanks to Tracey Eldred for creating the digital story and Jo for recording it.</p>
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<p>Kayleigh Owen – Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist: <a href="mailto:Kayleigh.owen@wales.nhs.uk">Kayleigh.owen@wales.nhs.uk</a>; @respphysioko</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Helen Howson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Transforming lives of older adults through the innovative 'Super Agers' programme.</p>
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<h4><strong>Bridgend County Borough Council with partners, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC, Merthyr Tydfil CBC, Public Health Wales, Bridgend Association of Voluntary Organisations, Halo Leisure, Awen Trust and Merthyr Leisure Trust</strong></h4>
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<p>The Super-Agers project aims to increase physical activity opportunities for older adults via a regional partnership approach across the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board footprint. <strong>Super-Agers aims to co-produce supportive community activities with older adults with a focus on maintaining independence in communities. </strong>The project has been successful in securing 400k of Healthy and Active fund investment over 3 years including a national focus on evaluating improvements to physical and mental wellbeing. This has seen connections to integrated care and transformation projects.</p>
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<p>The strategic case identified a projected 27% increase in the ageing population of Wales by 2039 and a 22% increase in adults living with a chronic condition, whose lives might be improved by increased physical and social opportunities. The business case identified more cost-effectiveness via a regional collaborative approach including local authorities, public health and the third sector. It identified <strong>an ambition of “empowering” older adults to own and sustain a range of community activities and social prescribing opportunities.</strong> The financial case has projected that building resilience by improving the skills, knowledge and confidence of volunteers and enhancing third sector and community groups may be a prudent investment and reduce the need for day services or home care support.</p>
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<p>The Super-Agers logic model has targeted a series of Future Generations outcomes including healthy lifestyle behaviours, ability to influence local decisions, ability to access services needed, volunteering rates, reducing loneliness and supporting good mental wellbeing scores. Super-Agers has been connecting with other prevention programmes to identify how to best capture impact in a range of ways.</p>
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<p>Mobilising a regional programme of this kind has needed to ensure flexibility for partners to respond to local circumstances. The national evaluation approaches have not always been effective for the demographic group and other qualitative approaches have needed to be used. A programme that is targeting population groups that have been hard to engage needs to be sensitive and proportionate in its evaluation approaches to retain their participation.</p>
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<p>Following the national Covid-19 lockdown, alternative ‘Active@Home’ approaches have been developed including resource packs, activity books and telephone mentoring.</p>
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<p>Super-Agers has proven a demand with 239 older adults engaging in this co-produced intervention in 12 locations, supported by 70 social care students.</p>
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<p>An inter-generational approach designed to support Age Friendly Communities has highlighted the value of using social prescribing opportunities to bring communities together.</p>
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<p>By connecting these opportunities to other support such as local community co-ordination it is possible to build resilience and reduce managed care needs.</p>
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<p>Alternative “Active at Home” approaches were required to support 124 people with resources including physical activity challenges and subsequently telephone mentoring support. (See the home support pack below).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">“Love being part of a group again and I am motivated to do more if possible”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">“These sessions make me happy and they make me come out of the house”</p>
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<p>Mrs D is in her early 70s and lives alone, she is partially sighted and despite being able to navigate her local area she is limited to days when it is not too bright. Click below to read about how Super-Agers has supported Mrs D.</p>
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<p>The initial prevention-focused “balanced scorecard” that was created can be further developed, particularly in regards to cost avoidance, cost reduction or supporting demand management for health and social care partners.</p>
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<p>Super-Agers will need to formalise how it aims to further capture its impact as an example of preventative work that de-escalates some needs over a 2 year period of delivery.</p>
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<p>The experience has reinforced my belief in the importance of preventative work and the need for cross sector collaborative working. Being able to connect more broadly with health and social care professionals has added depth to understanding of challenges, including the need to rebuild communities post-Covid-19.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Enhancing patient safety and efficiency by making smart infusion pumps even smarter.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://bevancommission.org/making-smart-infusion-pumps-smarter/">Making SMART Infusion Pumps SMARTER</a> appeared first on <a href="https://bevancommission.org">Bevan Commission</a>.</p>
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<h4><strong><span class="_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr">Hywel Dda University Health Board with industry partner, B. Braun Medical Ltd</span></strong></h4>
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<p>The pumps also store data from each infusion which enables medicines safety colleagues to identify areas which need additional training to improve infusion safety.</p>
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<p>This project has enabled the purchase of a number of ‘Wi-Fi’ batteries which connect the pumps to the health board IT network to automatically update the drug library and access the stored data for analysis and drive improvements locally and across Wales.</p>
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<p>To explore the benefits of connecting infusion pumps to the health board network by asking some simple questions:</p>
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<li>How would this learning help us to improve infusion safety?</li>
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<li>What is the compliance rate of the drug library (DL)?</li>
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<li>What drugs are having infusion limits breached and why?</li>
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<li>An incident with insulin propelled our project team to update all infusion pumps manually as a priority. We received “high level” support and buy in which triggered a rapid review of the library and modification data. It also initiated multiple conversations around infusion practice, infusion limits, pump configurations and emphasised the lack of knowledge and investment around the resource and expertise required for this to happen.</li>
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<li>Data stored in the pumps provides valuable intelligence on infusion practice on the front line. The data revealed near misses on various drugs e.g. insulin furosemide</li>
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<li>Datix reports have revealed a trend of antibiotic administration errors where the patient’s allergy status wasn’t checked before administration. This technology enabled us to put a risk reduction message on the antibiotic profile to remind the nurse to “check allergy status.” We will be monitoring the Datix reports to measure this intervention.</li>
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<li>A change of formulation occurred for the treatment of phosphate deficiency. The technology enabled us to reflect this in the DL by adding the new formulation.</li>
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<p>During COVID-19, there have been huge challenges with the procurement of critical care drugs. Across Wales there is a drive to standardise concentrations of certain drugs, preserve the supply chain and reduce waste e.g. noradrenaline. The technology will enable us to update the DL instantly to reflect these changes during this unprecedented time.</p>
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<p>Being a Bevan Exemplar has made us realise that anything is possible even when resources are tight!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">“Data without information is futile! The Bevan Exemplar programme has allowed us to capture considerable amounts of data and turn it into something powerful for our patients.”</p>
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		<title>It’s Always Too Soon to Talk, until It’s Too Late: Advance Care Planning in Powys</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Helen Howson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>This project is about facilitating Advance Care Planning (ACP) in a rural community, working in partnership to educate a network of Powys ACP Champions to promote and enable future care planning.</p>
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<p>Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a process that supports adults at any age or stage of health in understanding and sharing their personal values, life goals, and preferences regarding future care [1].</p>
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<p>82% of people have strong views about their future care, and wish to die in their usual place of residence, surrounded by loved ones. Despite these preferences, in Wales current hospital deaths remain at 50%. Ensuring honest conversations, informed choices, and the involvement of family and carers allows for coordinated care based on the values, beliefs and wishes of the person at the end of their life.</p>
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<p>Rural communities such as Powys face additional challenges, as residences are often far from hospitals and loved ones, making planning ahead especially important for ensuring quality palliative and end of life care. Although these are often seen as difficult conversations, evidence suggests that ACP is more accessible and less threatening in rural areas when these conversations are held with local people.</p>
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<p>In 2019, the Powys Specialist Palliative Care Team launched the PTHB <a href="https://pthb.nhs.wales/about-us/programmes/my-life-my-wishes/">“My Life, My Wishes”</a> Advance Care Plan document and guidance booklet, following extensive key stakeholder and public engagement. This project trains ACP champions from health, social care and voluntary organisations in Powys to advocate and empower their community to contemplate and share their future care wishes.</p>
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<li>Have the knowledge, skills and confidence to guide conversations, aided by the PTHB “My Life, My Wishes” Advance Care Plan documentation.</li>
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<li>Support public awareness programs to break taboos around conversations about death and dying, including <a href="https://www.hospiceuk.org/our-campaigns/dying-matters">Byw Nawr</a>/Dying Matters Awareness week, Departure Lounge events and <a href="https://deathcafe.com/">Death Cafés</a>.</li>
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<li>Covid-19 also delayed the project start, and meant training sessions were adapted to an online format – this also provided the opportunity to extend our reach, with 174 delegates trained in ACP awareness in Powys as part of their palliative and end of life Covid-19 education.</li>
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<li>Powys ACP champions support “what matters” conversations when ACP opportunities arise through their roles, their established local community networks and their personal networks.</li>
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<li>So far 160 Powys ACP Champions have been trained in a variety of health, social care and voluntary sector settings. As part of this project, 60 ACP champions have been trained in Powys County Council and Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations (PAVO) and charitable organisations.</li>
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<li>Face-to-face and online events for Byw Nawr/Dying Matters awareness week and Departure Lounge, supporting Compassionate Cymru, have enhanced public awareness, and continue to increase the uptake of ACP in Powys.</li>
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<p>The public health message is ACP is for everyone and “it is never too late to discuss your future care wishes.”</p>
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<p>Sarah Wheeler: <a href="mailto:sarah.j.wheeler@wales.nhs.uk">sarah.j.wheeler@wales.nhs.uk </a>, Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Sar_Whe">@Sar_Whe</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://pthb.nhs.wales/about-us/programmes/my-life-my-wishes/">My Life, My Wishes (Powys Teaching Health Board)</a></p>
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<p><strong>[1]</strong> Defining Advance Care Planning for Adults: A Consensus Definition from a Multidisciplinary Delphi Panel (2017); https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5728651/</p>
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<h4><strong>Hywel Dda University Health Board</strong></h4>
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<p>One in four Carmarthenshire residents have a chronic health condition. Many people with long-term conditions also have mental health problems, which can lead to significantly poorer outcomes and reduced quality of life. Research shows that poor physical and mental health increases costs to health and social care by at least 45% per person. Bridging physical and mental health is key to delivering a seamless approach to both prevention and statutory care.</p>
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<p>‘A Healthier Wales’ Health &amp; Social Care plan calls for services to “bring health and social care together in integrated services; to support and anticipate health needs, to prevent illness, and to reduce the impact of poor health; and improve physical and mental well-being.”</p>
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<p>This project aimed to develop an innovative Clinical Health Psychology pathway within Carmarthenshire Integrated Services for people whose psychological difficulties were impeding on their self-management and increasing their social care needs.</p>
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<p>The integration of psychology into health and social care teams aimed to:</p>
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<p>The referrals that we received for assessment and intervention were complex and broad in their presentations. This could prove challenging in respect of the input time needed by psychology for each service user and managing systems around these referrals. Good , regular supervision helped with this.</p>
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<p>We were unable to engage 1 of the 3 Community Resource Teams within Carmarthenshire and think it is likely that this was because we had no physical presence in the Team. This could be overcome in future work by having a team member work from their offices occasionally.</p>
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<p>To date we have provided training in assessment and low-level interventions for anxiety and depression to 36 members of Carmarthenshire CRT’s . The feedback from this has been positive. Pre and post outcome measures show an increase in confidence by staff members to be able to asses for low level mental health difficulties and to work with their service users to provide interventions such as Sleep Hygiene, problem solving, goal setting, behavioural activation and onward mental health referral.</p>
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	<p style="text-align: center;">“The psychologists have been a vital part of the Community Resource Team. Their addition to the team has provided opportunities for a range of disciplines to work jointly with them including District Nurses, OTs, Social Workers, Physiotherapists and Chronic Disease Management Nurses. Their expertise has been pivotal in our work with a number of highly complex cases, in which psychological approaches have been utilised to work towards building resilience and increasing levels of independence. The psychologists have also worked proactively with the team to increase our knowledge of psychological approaches and have delivered excellent training to the Social Work Team which was positively received. “</p>
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<p>A cost analysis was conducted into 14 clinical cases where psychology provided input via the new integrated pathway.</p>
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<p>It was found that 43% of cases (n=6) led to savings of <strong>£1.8k per week (£86K per year)</strong>.<strong> </strong>For 2 of the cases costs were not reduced, but higher costs were avoided.</p>
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<p>In one case through avoidance of hospital admission and in another through avoidance of a long term residential package. On the whole, the cases took up 100 hours of clinical psychology time equating to £2,984, resulting in an overall saving of <strong>£83k.</strong></p>
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<p>The project has demonstrated that Clinical Psychology can be a valuable addition to Adult Social Care services. We continue to offer input into Carmarthenshire CRT’s and to evaluate this work to build up our evidence base.</p>
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<p>Core investment from the Health Board or integrated funding is required to make further savings, to ensure the sustainability of this working model and for further enhancement &amp; innovation to meet strategic objectives.</p>
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<p>Literature searches to date have found no literature relating to psychological issues/work in adult social care, we hope to write this work up for journal submission.</p>
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<p>I have enjoyed and benefitted from the training events that being an Exemplar has opened up to me. It’s been a great experience.</p>
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<p>Traditionally people access Occupational Therapy (OT) services at points of crisis. We wanted to evaluate the impact of earlier intervention from Occupational Therapists in a Primary Care model, with a focus on prevention and self-management, since we are the only Allied Health Professionals (AHP) qualified in physical, psychological and mental health, and therefore understand the impact of these conditions on daily life.</p>
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<p>General Practice is under significant pressure, serving a population with multiple and complex health and social care needs. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) places a further challenge to the health and care system, and highlights the value of flexible, adaptable AHPs in Primary Care.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;Having an OT as part of the core team is brilliant, something is lost in formal referrals but with you in the surgery you are more likely to pick up in cases, be involved in conversations about patients and be part of the initial conversations when we don’t know what to do.”</p>
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<p>Our model involves embedding an Occupational Therapist within the GP Practice group. We believe that Occupational Therapy has a significant role to play in delivering a cohesive and integrated primary and community service by focusing on prevention, proactive care and self-management.</p>
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<p>South Pembrokeshire Primary Care Cluster, in partnership with Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDdUHB), are one of the pioneers of the model of Occupational Therapy in Primary care. In addition it hosted the Occupational Therapy Vocational Clinic (OTVoc) National Research Project undertaken by HDdUHB Occupational Therapy Service and the Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT).</p>
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<p>Following evidence gathered from these projects, the aim was to evaluate:</p>
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<li>How the above supports prudent healthcare, as we use collaborative conversations to find ‘what matters to people’, making sure that the right care is available at the right time, from the right source, at home or nearby;</li>
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<p>COVID-19 Lockdown 2020 coincided with the beginning of our project, bringing additional challenges, including:</p>
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<li>Impact of remote working on communication, development of team work, and opportunities to promote understanding of the OT offer to Primary Care – in response we agreed a communication framework to enable collaboration on person centred holistic care, which includes technology-enabled multi-professional meetings, remote access to Primary Care records and an easy reference poster, which increases our availability and offers alternative solutions to proactively support well-being.</li>
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<li>Occupational Therapy in Primary Care is well placed to play an essential role in identifying and delivering the Welsh Government framework <a href="https://gov.wales/rehabilitation-framework-continuity-and-recovery-2020-2021-html">“Rehabilitation: a framework for continuity and recovery 2020 to 2021”</a> for groups impacted directly or indirectly by COVID.</li>
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<li>The OTVoc offer helps people to have improved confidence and ability to manage their own health condition(s) and daily life and consider returning/remaining in work, as evidenced in the <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308022620948763">report by Fiona Nouri et al</a>.</li>
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<p style="text-align: center;">“Benefits both patients and GPs, for patients who are repeat users of our surgery it has opened other avenues or support networks. Patients feel more confident/informed in managing their conditions and therefore as a result have attended the surgery less.”</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">“The Occupational Therapist advice and support has made a significant impact on my confidence and ability to provide the care that my dad requires at home. I understand how to assist him to manage breathlessness- to arrive to the bathroom with sufficient energy to wash and shave.”</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">“… My role as a GP is to treat patients holistically within the community. This can be hard sometimes when services are limited.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seeing our work in tandem, and the positive impact that this has had on both physical and mental health issues during the pandemic has given me a sense of satisfaction and relief. Since having a timely, efficient OT service to utilise for my patients, I have seen improvements in their progress and in their confidence. On a personal level, it is refreshing to have a team of professionals with such a ‘can do attitude,’ ready with ideas and approaches to help. Having that easy access for a query or a concern is very useful. It doesn’t feel like a ‘separate service’ this way, it is more collaborative, and that serves the community best.”</p>
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<li>We will promote the Occupational Therapy skill set to help people with health problems or disabilities return to and stay in employment, by increasing the access to AHP Health and work reports written by Occupational Therapist.</li>
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<p>Sharon Davies: <a href="mailto:sharon.m.davies@wales.nhs.uk">sharon.m.davies@wales.nhs.uk</a>,  <a href="https://twitter.com/SharonDaviesHd1">@SharonDaviesHd1</a></p>
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