Blackburn with Darwen Place
Blackburn with Darwen place is a semi-rural borough with small urban areas around the towns of Blackburn and Darwen, and several small rural villages and hamlets. The area is multicultural is home to many people with diverse ethnicities and identities.
Leaders
Director of health and care integration for Blackburn with Darwen Place is Claire Richardson.
Claire has over 20 years' experience of leadership at operational, strategic, and executive levels, in jointly responsible roles across the NHS and Local Government. She has spent much of her career working in Blackburn with Darwen and across Pennine Lancashire.
It is important we involve people from all of the diverse communities across South Cumbria in our work. The NHS belongs to us all and your views matter. It's your health service, and it's really important you tell us about your experiences and help to shape how services will look in the future.
By actively engaging people in different ways, we also come closer to reducing the differences in health and life expectancy and deliver services that meet the needs of our population.
If you would like to get involved please contact our engagement team at lscicb.ice@nhs.net
Key priorities
Knowing our people – working with people to co-produce and use their intelligence alongside our own population, health intelligence and data to get to the bottom of integrated service delivery and what that needs to look like for our people.
Delivering integrated services – looking at our integrated neighbourhoods, intermediate care, care sector quality improvements, and growing and supporting our workforce. In addition, looking at our community health services as the provider of such will be shifting.
Developing our partnership – this includes partnership arrangements, finance performance and reporting, clinical and care professional leadership, voluntary, community and faith networks, as well as our workforce. We will be trying to grow and develop our workforce in Blackburn with Darwen and fill some of the health and care gaps that we have.
Delivering life course improvements – this priority is split into four workstreams:
- Start Well
- Live/Work Well
- Age Well
- Dying Well
How to get involved
It is important we involve people from all of the diverse communities across Blackburn wiht Darwen in our work. The NHS belongs to us all and your views matter. It's your health service, and it's really important you tell us about your experiences and help to shape how services will look in the future.
By actively engaging people in different ways, we also come closer to reducing the differences in health and life expectancy and deliver services that meet the needs of our population.
If you would like to get involved please contact our engagement team at lscicb.ice@nhs.net
What is a place-based partnership?
A place-based partnership is a collaboration of planners and providers across health, local authority and the wider community, who take collective responsibility for improving the health and wellbeing of residents within a place. Most people’s day to day care and support needs will be met within a place and delivered in neighbourhoods.
Blackburn with Darwen is one of four place-based partnerships in Lancashire and South Cumbria.