NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB Podcast

If you use GPs and hospitals, dentists, pharmacies, care homes or other services, Healthwatch is the organisation who want to gather your feedback. Healthway captures the experiences of people who use our local services, to shape, influence and improve local care.

ICSs have existed in one form or another since 2016, but for most of this time have operated as informal partnerships using soft power and influence to achieve their objectives. Following the passage of the 2022 Health and Care Act, ICSs were formalised as legal entities with statutory powers and responsibilities. So to find out a bit more, I spoke with Dr Andrew Kelso who is the Medical Director for the NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB Board.

Personalised care means that patients have more control and choice when it comes to the way their care is planned and delivered, taking into account individual needs, preferences and circumstances. It is a whole system approach that enables a variety of services across the health, social care, public health and community spectrum to be integrated around the individual in order to deliver better outcomes and experiences.

There are many different aspects of personalised care. Shared decision making between clinicians and patients – working collaboratively to reach a decision about treatment that best suits the patient.

Hear from Jo Cowley - SNEE Operations Lead for Personalised Care - and Dawn Taylor - personal health budget delivery adviser - all about how we are working towards delivering personalised care and personal health budgets in Suffolk and northeast Essex.

The rollout of the COVID vaccination was a miraculous success for the NHS; to find out more about how the programme was delivered locally, Physician Associate James Catton spoke with deputy director Liz Moloney about her part in the vaccine programme. 

In this episode, Physician Associate James Catton is joined by Gary Norgate - the programme director in charge of building the new hospital in Bury St. Edmunds. We talk about some of the issues of the current building, plans for the future new hospital, and the importance of minimising the environmental impact of the build. 

In this episode, Physician Associate James Catton chats with Dr Simon Rudland. Simon worked as a GP in Suffolk for many years in Stowmarket, and is now a Visiting Professor of Integrated Digital Health at the University of Suffolk.  Simon talks through some of the exciting digital innovations and tech projects that will transform our health and care services in Suffolk and northeast Essex