Each of our Place Integrated Health and Care Partnerships have put together a local Plan that explains what they will be prioritising to achieve the vision and ambitions set out in the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Strategy and NHS Joint Forward Plan for South Yorkshire and what matters to their communities. Each of the plans will address they key issues which our communities told us matter most. These were:

  • Accessibility: Being able to access care services in a timely and convenient way was the most commonly mentioned concern because it affects the quality of a patient’s experience. This was felt particularly strongly in terms of demand for accessing GP services. Removing barriers to accessing information, support and services were mentioned by all.
  • Affordability: The costs of transport, parking, medication, treatments, as well as being able to live more healthily, were also mentioned universally. The cost of living challenge provides the context to these responses.
  • Agency: Many people want to be in control of their own care and want better access to the information, tools and capacity to manage this.

Sheffield Integrated Health and Social Care Place Plan 2023-25

Across South Yorkshire we want everyone to live happy and healthier lives for longer. Sheffield's Health and Social Care Community has been working in a collaborative way for many years to transform the way it cares for and achieves a positive change for Sheffield people.  The 2023-25 Place Plan sets out our top 5 priorities, following an assessment of our key challenges and our aspirations as a partnership to achieve our joint vision.

‘Our partnership vision is for our health and care services to be integrated, joined up, and seamless; to reduce and remove inequalities in health outcomes and access to support, by playing our full role as anchor organisations in our city, and to do all this in a way that involves people, their experiences and our communities at the centre of our work.’

The Sheffield Place Plan sets out some key priorities:

  • Discharge and Home First: Significant challenges in our discharge pathways which has an impact on hospital flow and patient experience.
  • Same Day Access to Care: Significant challenge in levels of presentation in ED, ambulance handover delays and demand on primary care along with levels of occupied beds.
  • Mental Health Crisis (all age): Challenges in achieving core standards due to increase in demand and presentation in ED for people in crisis that impacts on experience and outcomes and an opportunity to deliver alternative models of support.
  • Neurodiversity: The neurodiversity service has received more than double the number of referrals compared to 18/19 and 19/20. increasing demand which has a significant waiting time for patients.
  • Building a model neighbourhood: To address the health inequalities experienced by communities residing in the north-east of the city, where we have the highest levels of deprivation and poorer outcomes

The Place Plan closely aligns to the Sheffield Health and Wellbeing Strategy and the South Yorkshire Joint Forward Plan.

Read Sheffield's Place Plan here.