South Cumbria Place
South Cumbria is a mixture of coastal and rural areas, with some wealthy and some disadvantaged communities.
The area stretches from Barrow-in-Furness, a busy shipbuilding town and port, and Millom on the west coast, through South Lakeland with its rural, land-based and thriving visitor economy, across to the area around Bentham in North Yorkshire. This is England’s most sparsely populated local authority area, which makes it hard to deliver services and to provide public transport and transport connections.
Leadership
Jane Scattergood is the director of health and care integration for South Cumbria Place.
Jane brings expertise in public health interventions for the population, particularly in the fields of maternity, early years and population screening programmes and has a special interest in quality assurance, quality improvement and demonstrating the impact of strategies and interventions.
Key priorities
- Enhanced care at home (intermediate care) – supporting our residents with increased independence and longer lives at home
- Thriving healthy communities – integration of public health, population health, harnessing community power, having our citizens describe what they need to help them live well for longer. There will be a strong focus on wellbeing and the pursuit of health outside of hospital.
- Workforce development – South Cumbria does struggle with recruitment, partly because of the remote nature, partly because of rurality. In the winter it’s difficult to get around because of the snow and ice and in the summer, parts are very busy with tourists. We need more innovation and to harness digital opportunities, but we really need to attract our workforce to live and work in our place.
How to get involved
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
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.
South Cumbria is one of four place-based partnerships in Lancashire and South Cumbria.