Keep your eyes peeled between now and the end of June and you could win a free, seven-day pass to your nearest council-run leisure centre.
The CCG is calling on readers visiting their GP practice, pharmacy, dentist or optician to take a photograph of a particular pamphlet on display and then email it to CCG communications manager Charles Malkin at c.malkin@nhs.net.
People who spot the pamphlet, called ‘Seizing the Opportunity for Better Care: Continuing the conversation’, need to send in their pictures by 5pm on May 30. Their details will then be entered into a prize draw and the lucky winner will receive a pass to their nearest local authority leisure centre, courtesy of Cheshire East council.
Entrants should say where their picture was taken and include a telephone number.
There should be lots of opportunities for snappers to get clicking as the Caring Together team has distributed more than 4,000 copies of the publication since it was unveiled in March.
The pamphlet describes how the CCG and council are working with health and social care organisations to build a system that looks after the whole person, helps people take care of themselves and keeps them out of hospital when it is safe to do so.
It reports that integrated care is already improving patients’ lives.
For example, the CCG has joined forces with Bollington Medical Centre, McIlvride Medical Practice and Priorslegh Medical Centre in Poynton and School House Surgery in Disley, to fund the posts of two care co-ordinators who ensure that patients get the ongoing care they need to live independently at home following hospital discharge.
Co-ordinators contact health partners to put in place a range of support which may include home visits to change wound dressings, help patients walk again after surgery, or install equipment such as grab rails andstair lifts.
The scheme has helped more than 400 patients since it started last July and has reduced hospital readmissions.
Following the competition, the CCG will also publish some of the snaps online to help promote the pamphlet.
