Healthcare Leader brought five experts together to discuss integrated care boards (ICBs) work on fighting social exclusion, poor health, poverty, violence or complex trauma in inclusion health groups, through the latest roundtable Inclusion health groups: The ICB approach.
Launched in May 2024, the Inclusion Health roundtable took a deep dive into how NHS leaders work with inclusion health groups and covered the pertinent and pressing matters concerning the provision of primary health care for this group in the system.
Inclusion health groups typically experience multiple overlapping risk factors for poor health. They cover people who are socially excluded, such as sex workers and vulnerable migrants. As part of the Core20PLUS5, ICBs could decide on which inclusion health groups they wanted to focus on.
This roundtable brought together key opinion leaders to discuss ICB focus areas, asylum seekers, pilots and programmes, new approaches and future initiatives.
Victoria Vaughan, editor of Healthcare Leader, spoke to Alice Vickers, senior manager for inclusion health and asylum seekers, Shelley Ames, acting head of health inequalities both from Norfolk and Waveney ICB, Tessa Lindfield director of public health at Berkshire East public health hub, Martha Earley, programme director for partnerships and communities in Northeast Hampshire and Farnham Place and Dr Nick Pulman, Arden and GEM’s Chief Clinical Information Officer, about what more can be done at NHS and system level.
Experts say: ‘We mustn’t forget that we can’t clump all these people into a homogenous group. They’re really varied, and they don’t just have one set of issues.
‘The integrated care system gives us that foothold to take an approach that hasn’t been there before and we’ve recognised as a system that we’re going to do it together – and really, genuinely do it together.’
‘Inclusion health groups should be a priority for everyone, integrated into almost everyone’s work as well as things like specifications and contracts.’
Since launch, the roundtable report has been promoted to our community of healthcare professionals, via a variety of formats, including online advertising, emails, and social media – via Healthcare Leader but also via our sister publications Pulse, Nursing in Practice and The Pharmacist.
Since launch, the report has generated fantastic engagement and discussion, with over 1,000 views. This is the latest in our roundtable series.
In late 2023, the Healthcare Leader Healthcare data roundtable discussed the changes needed to bring the NHS into the digital age, with AI and the Digital Protection and Data Information Bill making its way through Parliament.
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