Health inequalities – Covid Vaccination Programme, Autumn 2023
The recent campaign has included working in collaboration with other Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in Calderdale. MAKE EVERY CONTACT COUNT has been the focus to ensure patients can receive a range of services in one visit.
The Health Inequalities roving team have managed to offer health checks, wound care, weight and height measurements, blood pressure checks, covid and flu vaccinations.
The project visited a variety of venues from October 2023 to December 2023:
- William Henry Smith School
- Ravenscliffe School
- Innovations Children Centre
- Todmorden Learning Centre
- Supported Living homes
- The Gathering Place
- The Basement Project
- Laura Mitchell Centre
- St Augustine’s Centre
- Jubilee Family Centre
POSITIVE OUTCOMES:
Health inequalities – Covid Vaccination Programme 2022-2023
Calder & Ryburn’s Covid19 roving team have been very busy over the last year, specifically supporting those who suffer from health inequalities. The current process in our PCN is to encourage efforts tackling health inequalities at Network level. We were able to support and work with inclusion health groups across Calderdale by delivering a range of pop-up clinics within the local area.
Development of relationships across CCG, CMBC, voluntary sector, volunteers and Covid Champions, providers of care to vulnerable groups and wider relationships with West Yorkshire wide Health Inequalities Vaccination meetings. The next steps – building on our work and relationships formed to MAKE EVERY CONTACT COUNT and reduce health inequalities in a wider sense, not purely Covid vaccinations. This project will be supported by Public Health at CMBC for a further year to the end of March 2023.
Since retiring as Practice Manager at Brig Royd Surgery in June 2021, Sue Rosborough has been the lead for the Health Inequalities Project and will continue into 2022-23. Sue has worked really hard to develop and maintain links with the disadvantaged communities to help reduce Health Inequalities and provide support and information to those who usually wouldn’t access vaccinations and other services.
“We have built up a great team doing the roving model. It doesn’t matter where we asked the team to go, they always showed up and worked tremendously.”
The team have been visiting a variety of different locations, targeting many health inequalities groups such as asylum seekers, recovering addicts, the homeless, patients with learning disabilities, ethnic minorities and many more:
The Piece Hall. The team visited The Piece Hall twice for the weekend in May and June 2021. They worked with other PCN’s within Calderdale.
Parkinson Lane Primary School. We visited in July and September 2021. 118 vaccines were administered in total including 60 first doses.
Circus Extreme. July 2021. This was the first vaccination site held in a circus! 67 doses were administered to all ages.
Mixenden & Illingworth. August 2021. Working in collaboration with North PCN, this was done in a mobile unit based on a bus through Mixenden & Illingworth via Morrisons. 90 vaccinations were given – mainly first doses.
Acapulco Night Club. September and October 2021. This was mainly focused at young people over 16. 174 doses were administered including some patients who are homeless with the support of CMBC.
Trinity Sixth Form College. October 2021. Sessions were run over lunch time throughout the week. A total of 127 doses were given to pupils aged 16-18.
Ravencliffe School. October, December and March 2022. A total of 200 doses were given – first, second and boosters plus the team went back in March and gave first doses to some 11-year olds
Wool Merchants Hotel. January 2022. 44 doses were administered to asylum seekers, mainly first doses.
William Henry Smith School. March 2022
31 doses were given – 6 to staff and 25 to pupils including first doses to many 7–11-year olds.
St Augustine’s. Visited 4 times in total to support asylum seekers. In total there have been 246 doses administered.
The Basement Project. December 2021 and February 2022. 57 doses were administered to patients who are recovering addicts and homeless.
Laura Mitchell Centre. The team worked with SWYPFT to give 22 vaccinations to patients with SMI.
Ravenscliffe School. The team revisited the school in October 2022 administering 78 boosters to children and staff
The Basement Project. October 2022. This was a large visit for the Make Every Contact Count movement as the team administered 47 Covid-19 vaccines and 44 Flu vaccines. Blood pressure checks, wound care and the opportunity to speak to many different health care professionals was also available.
Carer’s Celebration Day. November 2022.
The team worked closely with Making Space Carer’s Wellbeing to offer Covid-19 and Flu Vaccinations.
William Henry Smith School. November 2022. The team offered a range of Covid-19 Vaccines including boosters to cater for the range of ages within this school.
People With Learning Disabilities. November 2022. Working closely with Central PCN this bespoke clinic was offered to ensure patients received a specialised clinic. Calderdale Learning Disabilities Team and Lead the Way joined us for this personalised clinic.
Laura Mitchell. November 2022. This clinic was set up to provide a personalised clinic for patients who have SMI’s and would benefit from reasonable adjustments being made.
