The document discusses a sharing event on Third Sector health and social care projects in South Wales. It provides learning objectives which include learning about Rural Health Innovation Fund projects and their findings, exploring relevance to local work, and opportunities for networking. Summaries are given of several RHIF projects focused on access, integrated working and community engagement, outlining their outcomes like increased referrals and partnership working. Action Learning Sets are also introduced as an opportunity to participate in.

1. Inspired access, integration
and community
engagement
A Third Sector health
and social care sharing
event: South Wales

2. Setting the scene
Sarah Lamberton
National Health and Social Care
Facilitator
slamberton@wcva.org.uk
 www.wcva.org.uk  0800 2888 329  help@wcva.org.uk

3. Learning objectives for the
day
 Learn about Third Sector Rural Health
Innovation Fund (RHIF) projects and
their key findings
 Explore how this learning and third
sector showcases are relevant to your
own local working and rural issues in
South Wales
 Examine opportunities, challenges and
possible solutions to apply to your own
working
 Learn about Action Learning Sets and
the opportunity to participate in one
 Network with others

4. Rural Health Plan and innovation
fund
Three key themes:
•Access
•Integrated working
•Community Cohesion
and engagement
Innovation Fund work:
•Regional Development
Sites
•Local Innovation
Projects
•Research and sharing

5. Rurality is difficult to define –
‘everyone has a different
definition’
 OCED (Organisation for Economic Co-
operation and Development) uses a
population threshold of fewer than 150
persons/sq km;
 Office of National Statistics defines
populations of less than 10,000 as rural;
 Deep Rural Project defines places that
are over thirty minutes drive time from a
settlement of ten thousand people.

6. And what do we mean by
‘Rural’… for South Wales?

7. RHIF projects – sharing the
learning
•RHIF Summary of Reports: a new
published Welsh Government report
featuring a summary of all 15 projects.
•Third Sector Coordination in Rural
Areas: a report highlighting the detail of the
three third sector projects and the key
learning/outcomes
Visit:
http://www.wcva.org.uk/images_client/publicati
on/WTSRN%20Newsletter%20Spring%202012
.pdf

8. CAVO
Project
Outcomes
 New ‘pathfinder’ system revealed
provision of new volunteers was
unnecessary - journeys could be met
through existing schemes
 Age Concern volunteer drivers were
busier and better utilised
 The project encouraged effective
partnership working between CAVO,
HDHB, the Local Authority and Age
Concern

9. Mantell
Gwynedd
Outcomes:
 Three awareness-raising events held,
supported by 40 organisations with over
three hundred participants
 Referral data collected from two
voluntary organisations showed an
increase in referrals during October 2010
- March 2011 on previous year
 Co-delivered outcomes with other RHIF
project – through a Mobile Information
Unit and production of a bi-lingual DVD

10. Outcomes:
 Early stages of linking grass roots
activities with service planning due to
increased cooperation between national
agencies and local initiatives.
 An increase in contact by national
organisations with the Health and Social
Care Facilitator.
 This piece of work is now part of a jigsaw
of information that is being fed into
strategic planning in Powys Teaching
Health Board

11. Capable Coping
Communities
Aimed to improve the health and wellbeing
of local people by developing their
capacity to care for themselves and for
others.
The scheme had 2 aspects:
 1. Volunteer Village Wardens
 2. Dawn Patrol Scheme

12. The legacy – Action Learning
Sets
Person
Action/
Problem
Learning
Set