\n The Proactive Care Team, known as PACT, is now operating in the town.\n<\/p>\n
\n Led by Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, the team offers short-term support to adults with complex longer-term health problems.\n<\/p>\n
\n The initiative brings together nearly a dozen professional services \u2013 covering physiotherapy, mental health, speech and language therapy, and occupational therapy, plus specialist Admiral dementia care nurses, palliative care nurses, healthcare assistants and advanced practitioners, a dietician, pharmacy technician and personal support navigator.\n<\/p>\n
\n Working with partners including GPs, primary and secondary care providers, social services, Dementia UK and the voluntary care sector, the team aims to address unmet needs and reduce duplication.\n<\/p>\n
\n Its services are now available for patients aged over 18 registered with Farfield and Holycroft surgeries, Kilmeny Group Medical Practice and Ling House Medical Centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n PACT team leader, Amanda Whitley, says: “Our team helps individuals to live well and manage their health conditions effectively, so they can avoid unnecessary GP appointments, unplanned hospital admissions or Accident and Emergency visits.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Our approach is anticipatory and preventative, and acknowledges the interrelationship of mental and physical health.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We encourage self-referrals as well as proactively seeking out patients who are over or underusing other health services.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Once we have accepted a referral, we carry out a holistic, patient-centred assessment and then create a tailored and co-ordinated healthcare plan for each individual, delivered by a mix of professionals in one community team.”\n<\/p>\n
\n PACT was initially established in central Bradford in 2020, as a Reducing Inequalities in Communities project.\n<\/p>\n
\n The intention was to tackle health inequalities in the city\u2019s most deprived areas, where healthy life expectancy was significantly below average.\n<\/p>\n
\n Amanda adds: “This way of working has proved efficient and effective in central Bradford.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We\u2019re so pleased we have been able to expand, so that people in Keighley with the greatest need can benefit from the PACT service.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The PACT team has won a number of awards.\n<\/p>\n
\n In 2023, it received the Team of the Year accolade \u2013 in recognition of delivering frontline services \u2013 at the Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership Celebrate as One Awards.\n<\/p>\n
\n Last year, in tribute to its work in Bradford, the team won the Excellence in Primary Care and Community honour at the NHS Parliamentary Awards.\n<\/p>\n
\n And it was a finalist in the Integrated Approaches to Care category of the Nursing Times Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Proactive Care Team, known as PACT, is now operating in the town. Led by Bradford District Care…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-292453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}