NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board

Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System (ICS) is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for two HSJ Awards, highlighting our commitment to transforming healthcare in our communities. Read more 🔽

Two local Care Collaboratives were launched last week – one in Coventry and one in Warwickshire – with development events that brought key partners together to discuss how they will work together moving forwards. Read more 🔽

The NHS in Coventry and Warwickshire has begun the rollout of the Targeted Lung Health Check service to North Warwickshire with the first patients receiving a low dose CT scan on Monday 22nd July. Read more 🔽

Two local GPs have won two Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) awards for their work on the Coventry and Warwickshire Learning Disability Friendly Badge, which recognises practices that are welcoming places for people with a learning disability and who provide excellent personalised care. Read more 🔽

At the beginning of May, a new system-wide electronic process supporting referrals to local eye care services in Coventry and Warwickshire launched with a phased roll out to community optician practices. Read more https://bit.ly/4ekzkEB

Diabetes Awareness Week begins today and NHS Coventry & Warwickshire are encouraging everyone to learn more about the symptoms, prevention, and treatment of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and to know their risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Read more https://bit.ly/3VgaMUs

People who test positive for COVID-19 in Coventry and Warwickshire and who are at the highest risk of becoming seriously unwell are now able to refer themselves for potentially lifesaving treatment. Read more https://bit.ly/3RBLr6D

NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) has joined the national Social Value Network, hosted by NHS Arden & GEM, as part of its ongoing commitment to deliver social value in the services it commissions. Read more https://bit.ly/4brLoC4 NHS Arden & GEM CSU

Every health and social care organisation that you have contact with has their own set of records. Watch this video featuring insights from various health and social care staff including Dr Angela Brady, our Chief Medical Officer. They offer a multidisciplinary perspective on the Shared Care Record.

People across Coventry and Warwickshire are being encouraged to think about the way we talk about death, dying and grief this Dying Matters Awareness Week (6th-12th May). Read more https://bit.ly/3WkMKdk