Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board’s (ICB) palliative care and end of life team is the inaugural winner of a new national award.
Along with its partners, the team has received the “Partnership-working across health and social care” award at The Palliative & End of Life Care Awards 2024 for exceptional achievement and commitment.
The award is recognition for the ICB’s approach to utilising its Palliative and End of Life Care (PEOLC) “Getting to Outstanding” framework, which identifies areas of good practice and gaps or inequalities in the care provided and helps inform priority recommendations for planning the region’s service provision.
The ICB acknowledged the significant input and support from multiple statutory health and social care organisations, local authorities, voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector, independent sector providers partners, Marie Curie and NHS England North West Coast Clinical Network that went into this piece of work, and the enthusiastic and inspiring dedication which has taken place across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The resounding positives to come from the work include relationship building, sharing of knowledge and information, collaborative working and the determination across all sectors to highlight the importance of getting dying, death and bereavement, right.
The judges praised the partnership-working as “an outstanding exemplar of partnership working”.
Dr Lindsey Dickinson, an associate medical director at the ICB, is the senior responsible officer for commissioning high quality palliative and end of life care for people in Lancashire and South Cumbria. She said: “This Award recognises end of life and palliative care teams across the whole of Lancashire and South Cumbria.
“Winning this award is national recognition that individuals, teams and organisations in Lancashire and South Cumbria have provided effective, high-quality, person-centred end of life and palliative care. This is so important as it enables people to have a good life and a good death.”
