Introducing NHFT Together: the healthy communities edition
Welcome to your brand new edition of NHFT Together, the Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) magazine for our service users, colleagues, stakeholders and the wider population of our county.
The focus of this edition is all about healthy communities, which is the second of the six strategic priorities in our Trust's THRIVE strategy. It's very closely linked with another of the three key shifts of the government's 10-Year Health Plan for England - moving NHS care from hospitals to the community.
For us this is about bringing services closer to where people live and helping to reduce the need for treatment in hospital, tackling unfair differences in people's health and access to healthcare, and building prevention of ill-health into everything we do.
So in this edition you can find out more about the many different ways we support our service users in the community every day, including criminal justice teams working to reduce offending by addressing its causes, dental services reaching out to help vulnerable people and how we have delivered big improvements to waiting times for dementia diagnosis.
We also look at how NHFT is designing community mental health support around the needs of our service users, how older people are being helped to regain their independence after a hospital stay, how our Trust is helping to pioneer a new way of supporting people to live with osteoarthritis, and more.
We hope you enjoy this new edition of NHFT Together.