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HICM: Case studies

These case studies show how local systems are putting the High Impact Change Model into practice to improve intermediate care, strengthen partnership working and support people to recover, regain independence and return home safely.

Isle of Wight: Intense three months of support has put us in strong position

  • LGA experts worked with the Isle of Wight Health and Wellbeing Board over a three-month period
  • One-to-one interviews and workshops were held covering how the board worked, neighbourhood health and working with communities
  • Director of public health reports the support helped ‘lift the gaze’ of the board as it entered a crucial new phase

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Kent: Our board needed re-imagining – the LGA helped us do this

  • Director of Public Health requested LGA to support efforts to re-develop the health and wellbeing board after it had ‘drifted to the margins’
  • A three-week intensive round of one-to-one interviews with board members and a workshop helped to pave the way for an overhaul
  • Plans now being put in place to take board meetings out into community settings, refresh the membership and set up key priority workstreams

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Devon: Our board has been given new vigour

  • LGA experts were brought in to review how health and wellbeing board was operating
  • Board has now been overhauled with a streamlined set of priorities
  • Meetings have been taken on the road in a bid to engage community

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