Bi-Borough Place-Based Partnership (Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster)

Integration in Bi-Borough has already started with our place-based partnership bringing together local council, NHS and voluntary and community sector partners.

Statutory providers of Health and Care Services including:

• Central London Community Healthcare - The Community Health Service provider for the Bi-Borough
• Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council – Two Local Authorities, including Public Health teams within Bi-Borough
• Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - The Mental Health Service provider for the Bi-Borough
• The 10 Primary Care Networks – Our 70 GP Practices are organised into groupings to support collaboration and working at-scale through Primary Care Networks
• Imperial College Healthcare and Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust - The main Acute Service providers for the Bi-Borough
• Kensington and Chelsea Social Council and One Westminster – Act as nominated infrastructure organisations to allow us to work with the wide and varied Voluntary and Community Sector across the Bi-Borough
• Healthcare Central London and London Medical Associated – Led by the Primary Care Networks, the GP Federations deliver at-scale Primary Care services for the Bi-Borough
• The local hospices

We have agreed three objectives that we want to achieve belive will deliver real change and benefits to local residents.

A single strategy and shared priorities that will improve health and wellbeing across the Bi-Borough

• We will develop a Bi-Borough Health & Wellbeing Strategy

• This will help us to deliver shared outcomes across health and wellbeing areas

A partnership approach that will help us deliver improved Health and Wellbeing

• We will develop a partnership agreement that will set out how we will work in collaboration together

• We will deliver an organisational development plan to help us develop the values and ways of working that will allow us to come together effectively

A delivery programme that will help us deliver improved Health and Wellbeing

• We will agree shared delivery priorities
• We will develop a joint transformation plan

Where are we going to start?

Using our primary aim of reducing inequalities as a starting point, we have identified a set of shared priorities, or “impact areas” that will take us towards this overall objective.

To build a sustainable approach to delivery we will develop work programmes in alignment with these impact areas iteratively.​ This means building on what we have today, whilst applying what we “learn from doing” as we move forward.​

Our five impact areas are diabetes, children and young people, discharge from hospital, care homes and mental health.

Building on our strengths

People have expressed willingness to engage:

• The ‘Engage, Support, Interview, Report’ model has worked well 
• Community champion initiatives have worked well
• We have examples of good co-production to build upon

Addressing our challenges

• COVID-19 and the causes and learning from Grenfell
• Digital exclusion and language barriers
• Signposting to trustworthy information
• Publicity around services
• Low awareness of current priorities
• Lack of trust and low confidence in services
• Long waiting times and the challenges of elective care recovery
• Growing pressures and gaps in funding across all partners

For further information, please contact Rita Thakaria, Managing Director, Bi-Borough - rita.thakaria1@nhs.net