Case studies

See how NHS Digital has worked with those who receive care, their carers as well as health and social care professionals to understand the social care information needs of older people. This case study forms part of our Design in Social Care Programme. This case study forms part of our Design in Social Care Programme.

Quit Well Newham was launched in January 2021. It provides quit aids such as nicotine replacement therapy and e-cigarettes alongside expert support from a stop smoking adviser

To help tackle the low vaccine uptake in Newcastle's working age men, Newcastle City Council and the local NHS worked closely with the city’s football club to help increase vaccination rates.

An element of drug and alcohol recovery support has been run from a community library since 2019 in Newcastle.

Managing transfers of care: an example of how a local area is working to implement system change. This initiative focuses on older people living with frailty and very complex needs in care homes. This example of a local initiative forms part of our managing transfers of care resource.

For Newcastle Gateshead CCG, one of the very best things occurring as a result of being part of the NHS England New Care Models programme has been the opportunity to test and evaluate new models. This example of how local areas are working to implement overall system change forms part of our managing transfers of care resource.

The approach to implementing trusted assessment involved identifying the best team to develop trusted assessment – using an interface team of nurse, physiotherapist, occupational therapist and social worker. The approach to implementing trusted assessment involved:

Newcastle operates a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach in which health and wellbeing is embedded across the council.

The Multi-Agency Safeguarding Tracker creates a data driven digital approach enabling information from multiple safeguarding bodies to be easily and securely shared, matched and anonymised. By limiting access to the necessary information to only authorised parties, this approach sits squarely within the GDPR regulations and wider requirements as demanded by the Data Protection Act 2018.

Milton Keynes takes part in the national Self Care Week. But as well as running events around the district, the council and CCG have also run a super local version on one of the most deprived estates in the area. This forms part of our resource on self care.