Welcome to this information pack which contains key details on Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust created to deliver mental health, community and learning disability services for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Welcome
Message from Ron Shields, Chief Executive
We are delighted that our new Trust, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, has been established.
This is a huge credit to everyone who has been involved and represents an important milestone for the NHS in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
But this is just the beginning. We can now focus all our efforts on realising the benefits of what our new organisation can achieve. We will build on the very best of our current services whilst innovating and developing ever better services for the people of Hampshire and Isle of Wight.
This is a new organisation for all of us, and our future is an exciting one. The Government priorities and the recent Darzi Report are all about a major shift to preventative, community and mental health services. This is where future NHS investment will be focused and is absolutely a massive focus for our new Trust.
Thank you to everyone who has been involved for your hard work. We look forward to a bright future for everyone associated with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
With best wishes
Ron Shields Chief Executive
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides community, mental health and learning disability services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight (HIOW).
The services are to support people’s physical and mental wellbeing, delivering them in patients’ homes, in schools, GP surgeries, health clinics and care homes, as well as in community hospitals and specialist hospitals.
The new organisation works across the whole of HIOW. It supports people from birth to the end of life, in a wide range of services. It works alongside our partners in the Integrated Care
Board, primary care, acute hospitals, voluntary sector, independent sector and local authorities.
The new Trust sees the coming together of Solent NHS Trust, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust, and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services provided by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Hampshire.
We have a team of over 12,500 staff who work from over 500 sites
We serve a population of around 1.5million people with care available for every stage of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support and our health and care partners, to constantly improve and deliver the best possible care.
The benefits
Bringing together community, mental health and learning disability services across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, helps realise a range of benefits for our patients and staff. Here are some examples:
Improved consistency of care
We understand that it can be incredibly frustrating to keep having to describe your situation, issue or medical history as you move between services which are often provided by different organisations. By coming together as one organsiation we hope to improve consistency of care for our patients, ensuring their transition between services is seamless wherever possible.
Improved access, especially to those most in need
We know that across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight we have a diverse and growing population and we need to ensure everyone has the same access to services. Over recent years we have seen how demand can affect services and prevent those in need getting the care they need swiftly and efficiently. Our hope is that by coming together we can improve access, especially for those most in need.
improved care
improved access
joined up services
greater patient experience
better retention of staff
More joined up services, across services and geographies
We also know that the more joined up our services are, the better outcomes and experiences our patients, carers and family members will have. This is a challenge when many interdependent services are located across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and across several different organisations. Coming together means that services can be more closely aligned and operate in a much more effective way across the area.
Greater patient experience
We believe bringing our services together will offer a greater patient experience. Bringing services together will offer improved consistency of care across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, improve access to our services and a better more consistent experience.
Reduced staffing vacancies and better retention of staff
Recruitment and retention is one of the biggest issues affecting the NHS,. Bringing our services together will enable us to be more resilient to staffing challenges whilst also making us a more attractive place to work, helping with our ongoing recruitment programmes.
The future of rehabilitation services without boundaries
Our rehabilitation beds in Southampton are currently spread across two sites with 43 beds at the Royal South Hants (RSH) and 24 beds at the Western Community Hospital (WCH).
The new rehabilitation service will be located in a purpose-built centre that has been codesigned with input from all the clinical teams and will open at the end of October 2024 as the South of England Rehabilitation Centre (SERC).This will be a centre of excellence with contemporary rehabilitation facilities for patientsboth locally and regionally. It will be the only purpose-built rehabilitation centre in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (HIOW) to be built at this scale.
Unique rehabilitation model
The new centre will provide a unique rehabilitation model involving specialist and general rehabilitation services by co-locating
our 43 beds with the existing specialist units Kite (10 beds) and Snowdon (14 beds). SERC will have the unique ability to manage patients with complex disabilities presenting with a diverse mixture of physical, sensory cognitive, communicative, behavioural, and social problems.
Managing this level of complexity is possible through combining the clinical skills of a wide-range of specialists.
Facilities available
The centre will be equipped with a modern gym where patients can use the most effective rehabilitation equipment and technology, and there will be an on-site Activity of Daily Living (ADL) flat where patients can experience living on their own before returning home. The ward configurations have been designed with greater flexibility for admissions and patient flow, for single sex accommodation and privacy compliance and for improved infection prevention strategies. Bed areas have been resourced with upgraded provision for bariatric care and the new centre also has the potential for diagnostics provision which will enable early transfer of patients out of the
acute hospitals, resulting in faster and superior improvements in patient outcomes.
Improved clinical journey
Over the last 18 months we have worked closely with the critical care staff (ICU) at University Hospitals Southampton (UHS) to ensure early identification of ICU patients who need intensive rehabilitation once ready for discharge from ICU. This clinical pathway is designed to “pull” patients from UHS at the earliest point in their care to admit to a to a rehabilitation bed.
The spinal pathway
Historically, Southampton patients with a low-level spinal injury/condition would remain as inpatients in UHS prior to being transferred to Salisbury for onward care. The new spinal pathway we have introduced offers a bridging pathway to Salisbury so that rehabilitation can continue and be increased to a general rehab bed. This is the only rehabilitation team that offers a bridging spinal pathway. Since being introduced, this has enabled many patients to be discharged directly home without the need to be transferred to the spinal unit at Salisbury.
Elective surgery and major trauma
Clinical pathways have further been developed within specialised elective surgery where the introduction of intensive rehabilitation can reduce the patient’s overall length of stay and improve quality of life. Major trauma patients are another group who benefit from early transfer to a rehabilitation facility, to continue their often-long rehabilitation treatment within a centre that caters for all their ongoing needs.
Key benefits
• Patients requiring rehabilitation can access high quality, specialist care provided by a full range of multidisciplinary clinicians all on one site
• Patients and staff will benefit from a modern, state of the art clinical environment designed for current and future needs
• The Centre will establish itself as a regional and national exemplar of inpatient rehabilitation and research
Vision and values
Our vision is that together we deliver outstanding care that supports people to live their best and healthiest lives.
Our overarching ambition is to provide consistently high quality, safe and effective mental health, learning disability and community services to all people across Hampshire and Isle of Wight.
The way we deliver this ambition will be characterised by working in partnership: partnership with people who use our services, with our communities, with our staff and with our NHS, local government and voluntary sector partners. Our intent is to create a culture which is compassionate and empowering, anchored in having respect and creates unity and promotes innovation.
We CARE through:
Compassion: We listen, we are kind, and put the needs of people first
Accountability: We work together openly and responsibly
Respect: We treat each person fairly, as an individual
Excellence: We empower people to continuously improve care.
Executive Team
Non-Executive Directors
Clinical Strategy
Our communities and the quality of care they receive is at the heart of what we do. Our clinical strategy will help us deliver on this for the new Trust, building on existing plans. Our clinical strategy is informed by engagement with staff, people who use our services, our communities and partners.
It applies to all services in the new Trust, for people of all ages, including mental and physical health, learning disability and neurodiversity services. Working to a common set of principles will enable us to seize this opportunity to provide holistic, person-centred care that strengthens the psychological awareness of physical health services and the physical health awareness of mental health services. It balances the benefits of working at a large scale to improve overall consistency of care and working in our local communities to provide local variation in response to the needs of different communities.
Dr Dan Baylis, our Chief Medical Officer, said:
“Fundamentally, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s clinical strategy is to collaborate with local authorities, primary care and the voluntary sector to deliver consistent, high-quality care tailored to the needs of communities and with a greater emphasis on staying healthy.”
We need to evolve to meet the changing needs of our population. Health and care services are facing unprecedented pressures
and all partners recognise that working together in this way is essential to addressing these challenges. We need to make the best possible use of our resources.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will address these factors more effectively than separate Trusts. It will tackle the most significant clinical risks, provide higher quality care, improve outcomes and experience for our patients, reduce inequalities and provide better value for money.
Our aim is to deliver high quality, safe and effective services to all people across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. To achieve this, we will apply the following six principles in every service:
• Make continuous improvement, innovation and research everyday practice
• Base all decisions on the expertise of both professional and lived experience
• Consider every stage of people’s lives, remove barriers and put prevention first
• Work alongside our communities and partners to deliver outcomes that really matter
• Develop our leaders to bring people together and enable change
• Give our people what they need to deliver the best possible care.
If you would like to read our clinical strategy in more detail visit our website
Get involved
The best way to improve our services is to listen to the people who use them. We know that over the coming years the number of people using community, mental health and learning disability services will increase, so it is vital that we hear the views of everyone using our services.
To find out how you can get involved, including becoming a Foundation Trust Member, visit our website.
