Suffolk and North East Essex ICS ‘Can Do’ Health and Care Awards 2025
Deadline for nominations Friday 2 May 2025
The deadline for nominations to our Suffolk and North East Essex ICS ‘Can Do’ Health and Care Awards 2025 of Friday 2 May 2025 is fast approaching.
Full details of this year’s awards are now available on our ICS website https://www.sneeics.org.uk/involving-everyone/can-do-health-and-care-awards-2025 including the award categories, judging criteria and the link to apply online. We are seeking nominations from across Suffolk and North East Essex, from individuals, teams and organisations, and from the NHS, local authorities, the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector, primary care, social care providers, and others involved in the health, care and wellbeing of our population. We want to recognise, commend, and share excellence in our health and care system in Suffolk and North East Essex that demonstrates the impact of innovative person-centred approaches, in partnership with people, communities and organisations. Our award categories this year are:
- Co-production and Co-Delivery Award
- Preventing Ill-health, Inequalities and Injustice Award
- Holistic, Neighbourhood Based Care Award
- Technology and Innovation Award
- Learning from Data, Evidence, Knowledge, and Intelligence Award
- Making Better Use of our Resources Award
- Unsung Hero Award
- Inspirational Leader Award
- Supporting Young People Award
- Partnership with the VCFSE Sector Award
Nominations must be submitted by 5:00pm on Friday 2 May 2025 using the online nomination form at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/can-do-health-care-awards-2025
Each category in the Suffolk and North East Essex ICS ‘Can Do’ Health and Care Awards 2025 will be judged by a panel which includes a majority of people with relevant lived experience, and our Supporting Young People Award will be judged by a panel of local young people.
Finalists will be invited to join us at our awards ceremony on Friday 4 July 2025 at Rowley Mile Racecourse, Newmarket. Winners will be announced and trophies and certificates given out to winners by some familiar faces. Information about all our winners and finalists will also feature on our ICS website and we would like to share your achievements and ideas with health and care partners locally, regionally and nationally – as well as local media.
Our first Suffolk and North East Essex ICS ‘Can Do’ Health and Care Awards took place in 2024, and the winners were announced at our annual EXPO event. The awards were a huge success in highlighting the extraordinary achievements of individuals, teams and collaborations across our health and care system. You can see a full list of our 2024 winners and finalists at https://www.sneeics.org.uk/involving-everyone/can-do-health-and-care-awards-2024
We look forward to receiving your nominations soon.
Loneliness Reduction Training Coming to West Suffolk!
Do you work for a Suffolk organisation that is connected to people experiencing loneliness? These can be organisations that promote social, mental, and physical wellbeing. If so, then Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with Civil Society Consulting and other partners invite you to book onto their new loneliness reduction training.
In recent years, social changes in the UK, including increased reliance on technology and weakened community bonds, which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have made social connections harder to establish naturally. As a result, loneliness is becoming a nationwide epidemic. Loneliness is a key contributor to various physical and mental health conditions, including cognitive decline. Loneliness can trigger symptoms like chronic stress, a weakened immune system, and high blood pressure, increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases, dementia, and other chronic illnesses that can significantly impact overall well-being and longevity.
In 2020, the Campaign to End Loneliness enlisted Civil Society Consulting (CSC) to transform their research into an interactive training course. Since then, CSC has piloted and developed the training with over 150 people in a wide range of places in the UK: Norfolk, Rochdale, Tameside, Tees Valley and Stoke-on-Trent. They have also developed another resource, called 32 Steps to Togetherness.
By the end of the training, 90% of participants had a strong understanding of loneliness and its impacts, while 85% developed a clear and motivated plan to tackle loneliness in their area. CSC is now working with the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and other local partners to expand the training to West Suffolk.
About the training
The training is currently aimed at grassroots organisations or statutory sector professionals working within the local area who are connected to people experiencing loneliness. However, the course can be adapted for all.
The workshops are to be split over two days. They will run from 10am-12:30pm on both days:
Day 1: Participants will develop a deep understanding of loneliness learning the theory and psychology behind it.
Day 2: Participants will collaboratively discuss and co-produce a strategic approach/plan to tackle loneliness in local area, including partnership working.
Each participant will receive a printed copy of CSC’s Loneliness Reduction Training Handbook on the day.
The dates to save in your diaries are the 4th and 5th of June 2025.
The training will be held at the Haverhill Arts Centre.
Address: High Street, Haverhill, CB9 8AR.
If you are interested in attending the training on behalf of your organisation or would like to know more, please contact:
tabitha.taylor@nsft.nhs.uk – Local Partner of CSC
rebecca.poz@nsft.nhs.uk – Local Partner of CSC
Or
natasha@civilsocietyconsulting.co.uk
Please do not contact the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Partnership
Women’s Health Insight & Oversight Group
Although the Women's Health I&O Group regular meetings have now come to an end, we have the opportunity to keep and grow the membership via a Women's Health Network! Please see this link to the page on Let's Talk SNEE:
Women's Health Network | Let’s Talk SNEE
We are beginning with the original I&O Group membership so there is no need to sign up to join if you were part of the original group.
Other projects currently running on Let’s Talk SNEE
West Suffolk Localities Partnership Platform – go to
https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/wslocalities
Attracting a new workforce in health and social care across Suffolk and North East Essex – go to
https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/attracting-a-new-workforce-in-health-and-social-care-across-snee
Suffolk Individual Placement and Support for Severe Mental Health Illness Procurement – go to
https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/suffolk-individual-placement-and-support-for-severe-mental-health-illness-procurement
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