SUFFOLK IN SYNC A partnership for the health and wellbeing of our community
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Communities across Suffolk have supported each other in remarkable ways in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Suffolk in Sync seeks to harness the spirt of friendship and collaboration to secure the grassroots community support and very best primary healthcare for all of us.
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Introduction Thank you for taking the time to read this brochure. It outlines how the University of Suffolk working with its partners, can help sustain and develop an integrated care approach to the health and wellbeing of our population in Suffolk and North East Essex. The Integrated Care Academy will be situated in the health and wellbeing quarter of the University campus. The campaign will support further physical transformation of a newly branded and substantial health and wellbeing building to enable our workforce development through education and training, research into integrated care and population health, and future develop community resources such as; an outreach hospice centre, a counselling and psychotherapy clinic, and support for education and training for health and social care.
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Our Vision Suffolk’s leading charities and non-profit organisations have come together to support the longer-term needs of the most vulnerable in our communities and to future-proof our outstanding primary healthcare systems. Communities across Suffolk have supported each other in remarkable ways in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Suffolk in Sync seeks to harness the spirit of friendship and collaboration to secure the grassroots community support and very best primary healthcare for all of us.
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Unique alliance
We have formed a nationally unique alliance across the University of Suffolk, St Elizabeth Hospice, Suffolk Mind, Suffolk County Council, Healthwatch Suffolk and the NHS. Together we can catalyse our capacity to support vulnerable groups and develop our professional expertise to respond to future health and wellbeing crises with world-class care.
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Partners Our partners share a determination to create a world-class educational environment to nurture the skills that we need to benefit the communities we serve. St Elizabeth Hospice, will work with University of Suffolk and partners to create a palliative and End of Life educational centre of excellence for training, staff and community development and into the future, potentially research into this whole area. Suffolk Mind will base its Ipswich operations at the University of Suffolk and work within the health and wellbeing building to support the community more widely.
NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk
St Elizabeth Hospice
NHS East Suffolk and North Essex
Suffolk Mind
Healthwatch
Suffolk County Council
Clinical Commissioning Group
NHS Foundation Trust
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The partners will be co-located in a bespoke space to be newly developed at the heart of the University’s waterfront campus.
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Our focus
Our focus and funding will span community action to empower individuals, educational campaigns, advocacy at a local policy level and beyond, through the academic research to establish best practice and become a centre of excellence in our innovative model of community engagement and primary healthcare.
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Our goals
Our aim is to provide a longer-term response to make the community more resilient, to deal with future health crises through research, to understand the impact of the health crises on vulnerable groups and deploying this learning with our healthcare partners to secure Suffolk’s position as a national leader in population and community health.
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Core priorities The restoration of the East Building on the University campus, enabling workforce development through education and training and research into integrated care.
The development of a Counselling and Psychotherapy clinic supported by Suffolk Mind.
The development of a Training and Development Centre supported by St Elizabeth Hospice with the future focus of providing an outreach hospice centre.
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Facts and figures Every year over 3,000 patients and their families receive care from St Elizabeth Hospice — this figure is set to grow incrementally as our population lives longer. In 2019/20: 2,426 individuals were supported in the community 2,741 day care attendances 326 people admitted onto the Inpatient Unit at Foxhall Road 771 people received emotional wellbeing and/or bereavement support This growing complexity of needs requires the highest standards of professional skills within our
workforce, and we cannot be complacent about where those skills are being developed within our region. We need to lean forward with our partners, and ensure that we are playing our part in our society’s commitment to developing those skills and dedication to the career choices of our health and social care colleagues. The Zest Ambition is a programme providing innovative care to young people with complex needs and incurable illness. Specialist staff enable young people to meet their aspirations and goals through a programme of care and activities.
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Facts and figures Suffolk Mind employs 100 staff providing services right across the mental health continuum — from our supported housing, for people coming out of hospital, to our workplace wellbeing and community support services. One in four of us, in any given year, will struggle with our mental health. Suffolk Mind’s population-wide research shows that more than 46% of us were prone to stress during the Coronavirus outbreak. The impact of lockdown, recession, sickness in our community and the anxieties that result will be felt for years, possibly decades to come. Today’s children, affected by lockdown and their
absence from school and the support that’s usually around them, could be tomorrow’s mental ill health statistics. During a normal year we would receive around 10,000 calls and enquiries to our information line, deliver at least 250 training courses to employers in Suffolk and elsewhere, share about 500 hours of GreenCare support with volunteers on our allotment sites, provide up to 5,000 counselling sessions, many on bursary rates for people who can’t afford to pay or wait, and provide more bespoke support to around 1,000 people through our groups and telephone-based support services.
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Double the number of places for students wishing to study as nurses, paramedics and radiographers as well as starting a new course in physiotherapy. Give local people an increased opportunity to be part of the local health and care workforce and will attract new students from across the globe, impacting positively on the wider economy. Enable the development of larger and better specialist spaces for the education of health and social care students. Offer further development of people in health and care, concentrating on leading our health and care provision to work more effectively together to benefit the health of the community. Clinics in physiotherapy, counselling and psychotherapy and sports massage will be accessible to the wider community in our town.
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Our Future
As the only Integrated Care Academy in the UK and beyond, this will give Ipswich the opportunity to demonstrate to the country and the world the benefits for the community of a partnership that offers more student places and develops leadership for health and social care. The Academy, developed in partnership with NHS and social care employers and based at the University of Suffolk, will be the first of its kind in the country that will give local people an increased opportunity to be part of the local health and care workforce. The new Academy will bring together existing University of Suffolk resources as well as build new capacity and capability, working with partners, in Teaching, Research, Knowledge Partnerships, Consultancy and Facilities. It will enable us to provide a greater number of skilled professionals into our workforce and play our part in the COVID-19 recovery and drive up the skills in our workforce well into the future thus benefiting individuals and our region.
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Professor Chantal Ski Director of the Integrated Care Academy and Professor of Integrated Care Professor Chantal Ski has over 20 years clinical and research experience in the development and evaluation of health service models of care for patients and families affected by chronic disease. With a focus on co-design and patient and public involvement (PPI), she has led several studies of ‘Optimal Health Programmes’ with the aim of translating research into practice and policy across the care continuum.
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Dr Mark Shenton Professor of Integrated Care Dr Shenton’s role will incorporate his front-line practice, Integrated Care System leadership for population health management and his Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Chair role so that his research is grounded in local provision and commissioning of healthcare.
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Floor plan First Floor 1. VERT suite 2. Psychology suite/IT lab 3. Seminar room 4. Tutorial room 5. Physiotherapy simulation space 6. Midwifery birthing unit 7. 6 bed ward 8. Community flat kitchen 9. Community flat bathroom 10. Community flat bedroom 11. Store room 12. Control room 13. Plant room
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Floor plan Second Floor 1. Courtyard 2. Open plan office 3. Office 4. Teaching space 5. Breakout space 6. Tutorial room 7. Staff room
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How to support us
If you would like to make a donation to the Suffolk in Sync campaign please contact the Alumni Relations and Development Team at University of Suffolk on giving@uos.ac.uk or alternatively please visit our Justgiving page at justgiving.com/university-suffolk.
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In receipt of donations our offer to donors will be as follows:
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Acknowledgement of generous gift from the ViceChancellor of the University of Suffolk as well as press coverage. A permanent place on our donor wall to be situated within the East building, leaving your legacy at the University of Suffolk. Opportunities to fund prizes to students at graduation. To become a member of the Vice-Chancellor’s circle, invitations to elite events/donor events/graduation/ annual court. A supporter pack, consisting of thank you, the impact your gift will have and a token of appreciation.
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