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HICM: Intermediate Care: West Sussex

Overview

HICM: Intermediate Care: Croydon

Overview

In 2017, Croydon Council, the local NHS Commissioning body, local health providers and voluntary organisations formed the One Croydon Alliance. They signed a legally binding 10 year agreement to work as one system, with shared goals and shared responsibility for local people’s wellbeing. The Alliance began by focusing on residents aged 65+, aiming to reduce avoidable hospital admissions, and help older people remain independent for as long as possible.

To guide the work, the partners committed to principles such as:

HICM: Intermediate Care: Halton

Overview

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Halton’s intermediate care provision was delivered through several separate services. These included the Rapid Access Rehabilitation Service, a Capacity and Demand Team, falls prevention team, hospital discharge teams and a Frailty team. While each service provided valuable support, they operated largely independently.

HICM: Intermediate Care: Stoke and Staffordshire

Overview

Demand pressures and increasing costs were putting strain on the system, making it difficult to maintain service quality and meet the needs of service users efficiently. There was recognition that no single partner could deliver systemic improvement alone; effective collaboration across Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Staffordshire County Council and Midlands Partnership Foundation was essential for meaningful change.

Action

HICM: Intermediate Care: South Tyneside

Overview

The ‘Guiding You Home’ programme was established in 2025 as a collaboration between South Tyneside Council, Sunderland City Council, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust; and North East and North Cumbria ICB.
The programme sees multi-agency teams working collaboratively with ward staff, care homes and home-based care services to find more effective ways of working – with the focus on helping patients get discharged faster, or stay out of hospital altogether, with more help provided at home.

Action

HICM: Intermediate Care: Redcar and Cleveland

Overview

Redcar and Cleveland were experiencing discharge delays across the local system, and intermediate care bedded provision was not leading to return home as frequently as would be expected.

Action

Place-led Working for Culture: a moment for change

Val Birchall, immediate past chair of the Chief Cultural and Leisure Officers Association (CLOA), explores how we need a 'national rethink' about how we support and grow cultural provision as an essential component of place-led working.

The Icing on the Cake? Culture, Devolution and the North East

Dr Henry Kippin, CEO of North of Tyne Combined Authority, and Professor Katy Shaw, Director of Partnerships: Northumbria University, discuss the context of culture and devolution in the North East.

Culture and devolution think pieces - foreword

Councillor Liz Green, Chair of the LGA's Culture, Tourism and Sport Board, Sir Nicholas Serota, Chair of Arts Council England and Lord Neil Mendoza provided a foreword for the launch of the think piece series.

Bennett Institute for Public Policy: The case for "cultural infrastructure"

Michael Kenny, Owen Garling and Steph Coulter from the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge, share their thoughts on what the case for cultural infrastructure might look like.

Shivani H Menon: Charity begins at home

Shivani H Menon, Senior Researcher at UK Onward, explores how we can grow local philanthropy.

Centre for Cultural Value: Putting people and communities at the heart of cultural policymaking

Ben Walmsley and Anna Kime from the Centre for Cultural Value explore people-centred evaluation in the cultural sector.

Lived experience and decision-making: an applied approach to using, connecting and representing qualitative evidence

Nicky Marsh, Joseph Owen and Daniel Ashton from Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton, explore the role of cultural data and how we can use it to improve our local area.

Arts Council England: culture and devolution

Paul Bristow, Director, Strategic Partnerships and Place Policy at Arts Council England explores what a coherent approach to funding and governance would look like at a local, national and regional level. What mechanisms would enable this? How could this support the delivery of a legitimate local cultural strategy?

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