What is the Academy?
The Academy was established by Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) in 2022.
It was established with the ambition of providing the workforce in Lancashire and South Cumbria with the knowledge, insight, and tools to respond to the growing health inequalities that health professionals see and respond to both in primary care and across the wider health and care system.
The Academy is seen as one of the key enablers for our wider programme around population health and health inequalities in Lancashire and South Cumbria. It aims to support the delivery of the ICB’s statutory duty to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare and tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access.
The Academy aims to be a catalyst for culture change and for the development of a social movement for health across the whole system in Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The ambition is that the Academy develops to become an initiative that benefits all partners across the system, that compliments existing learning opportunities provided by other partners, and that supports the development of the necessary knowledge, skills and understanding across the workforce to help improve population health and address health inequalities across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The Academy aims to provide a place where skills, knowledge and innovative ideas can be shared and where colleagues can learn from each other and from work being undertaken across the country and internationally.
Additionally, the Academy promotes the need for effective evaluation, meaningful community engagement and empowerment and the adoption of quality improvement methodology in work designed to tackle unwarranted variation and address health inequalities.
The Academy seeks to do this via a Build, Enable and Connect model:
- Build – population health capacity within the workforce via training, learning and development.
- Enable – collaboration by bringing people together to share best practice, inspirational ideas and learning to drive improvements in health equity and building communities of practice.
- Connect – people to other population health learning opportunities that are happening in our region by signposting and advertising to partner agency training.
How do I find out more about the Academy?
If you would like to find out more about the Academy or have any questions please email the team at healthierlsc.population.health@nhs.net.
