Our Plans and Priorities for 2020/2021 will be released shortly. 

Bay Health and Care Partners (BHCP) priorities for 2019/20 were focused around four key areas:

• Population health

• Integrated Care Communities and primary care

• National priorities

• Financial recovery.

You can find out more about each area and all of our achievements by reading the BHCP annual report here. 

Below is a summary of key achievements for 2019/20: 

• BHCP supported our Integrated Care Communities to deliver a number of community-based health events such as Lancaster Healthfest.

• We joined the National Atrial Fibrillation programme: meaning that patients on GP registers who are at risk of a stroke and would benefit from anti-coagulation are being identified with the aim of reducing strokes and unnecessary hospital admissions.

• We developed a diabetes pathway aimed at drastically reducing the number of people with type 2 diabetes and supporting those who have diabetes to manage their own condition better.

• Millom Integrated Care Community supported peer-led community-based Mental Health support.

• The Integrated Care Communities ran regular Farmers Health clinics at local auction marts across Lancashire and South Cumbria. 

• In emergency care, BHCP achieved a 50% reduction in patients medically fit for discharge waiting in acute hospital beds, releasing 50 beds cross-bay.

• We implemented a new cancer pathway aimed at speeding up cancer diagnosis and treatment.