Thank you to our funders, board of trustees, independent examiner and of course our membership for making 2019/20 a fantastic year for the forum. ECHF Annual Report
The Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership, responsible for delivering community and bed-based health and social care services for adults in Edinburgh, want to build thriving communities in Edinburgh and embrace the opportunity to create a different type of relationship with residents, communities and organisations across the city. The Partnership are starting a conversation to build the Edinburgh Pact. The Edinburgh Pact will be an agreement between the Partnership and everyone who lives and works in Edinburgh. Our first step is
For those of you who could not make it to the showcase event on 23rd January, I thought I would capture a short write up of my presentation.
What started as a relatively small event to discuss our recent work on Outcomes, ended up being a large event with fifty people at City Chambers, with key stakeholders from NHS Lothian, City of Edinburgh Council, the Edinburgh HSCP and the Scottish Community Development Centre.
With funding from the EIJB, over the past 6 months, ECHF members have been working together to understand the contribution of their work to improving outcomes for people and communities and in addressing health inequalities. Alongside colleagues from the Edinburgh based organisation “Matter of Focus”(https://www.matter-of-focus.com/about-us/) they have developed a shared theory of change, identified relevant data and evidence and started analysing their data and information to tell the story of the contribution that each organisation makes. This work builds on
We are thrilled to be restarting the next round of Action Learning Sets which will run directly after the next 4 forum meetings. By way of introducing Action Learning Sets, here is a short blog from Biddy, one of the participants of the first round: “I was interested in developing a way to incorporate ALS within the staff team so that there could be an open honest space to discuss issues / concerns but one that would collectively come up