Home About Us Get Involved Patient information Contact us Home About Us Primary Care Population Health Management Population Health Management Our health and care needs are changing: our lifestyles are increasing our risk of preventable disease and are affecting our wellbeing, we are living longer with more multiple long-term conditions like asthma, diabetes and heart disease and the health inequality gap is increasing. A new approach – called Population Health Management (PHM) – is helping us understand our current, and predict our future, health and care needs so we can take action in tailoring better care and support with individuals, design more joined up and sustainable health and care services, and make better use of public resources. By studying the population make up of groups of patients we can look at problems that keep cropping up, or a particular band of people who keep needing treatment, and look at the best way of intervening early on and helping them. For example, research has shown smoking rates are higher in Reading and Newbury than in Wokingham and more people are overweight and less active in Reading and around Newbury. A deeper study of the data helps pinpoint things like people at risk of falls, those suffering mental health problems or others with respiratory problems, and this means health and social care professionals can then intervene to try and tackle problems earlier. This can prevent them turning into more serious, chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease – health problems that cost the NHS large sums of money and take up big chunks of staff time. So, by tackling them early, it’s not only improving people’s quality of life, but also allowing the NHS to earmark vital resources to areas where they’re most needed. NHS England has published a podcast on 'PHM from the front line' which discusses some of our work in Berkshire West. You can listen here. The film below highlights how professionals in the Berkshire West Integrated Care Partnership are using a Population Health Management approach to identify patients in need of targeted support & making a very positive difference: About Us Who we are Our Responsibilities How we work with others Primary Care Berkshire West Primary Care Hubs Primary Care Commissioning Committees in Common Primary Care Networks Population Health Management Primary Care Transformation GP practices GP evening and weekend appointments Our Public Meetings Publications & Policies If you need medical help and are unsure what to do, call NHS 111 for help and advice. They are available 24 hours a day. Read more Telephone General Enquiries: 0118 950 3094 Continuing Healthcare: 0118 982 2900 Patient Advice and Liaison Service: 0118 982 2720 Address NHS Berkshire West CCG 57-59 Bath Road Reading, Berkshire RG30 2BA Email bwccg.enquiries@nhs.net Quick links About us Get Involved Individual Funding Requests Continuing Healthcare Fair Processing Notice Berkshire West Training Hub Selecteer een taal Nederlands Afrikaans Albanees Amharisch Arabisch Armeens Azerbeidzjaans Baskisch Bengaals Birmaans Bosnisch Bulgaars Catalaans Cebuano Chichewa Chinees (traditioneel) Chinees (vereenvoudigd) Corsicaans Deens Duits Esperanto Ests Fins Frans Fries Galicisch Georgisch Grieks Gujarati Haïtiaans Creools Hausa Hawaïaans Hebreeuws Hindi Hmong Hongaars Iers Igbo IJslands Indonesisch Italiaans Japans Javaans Jiddisch Kannada Kazachs Khmer Kinyarwanda Kirgizisch Koerdisch Koreaans Kroatisch Lao Latijn Lets Litouws Luxemburgs Macedonisch Malagasi Malayalam Maleis Maltees Maori Marathi Mongools Nepalees Noors Odia (Oriya) Oeigoers Oekraïens Oezbeeks Pashto Perzisch Pools Portugees Punjabi Roemeens Russisch Samoaans Schots Keltisch Servisch Sesotho Shona Sindhi Sinhala Slovaaks Sloveens Soendanees Somalisch Spaans Swahili Tadzjieks Tagalog Tamil Tataars Telugu Thai Tsjechisch Turkmeens Turks Urdu Vietnamees Wels Wit-Russisch Xhosa Yoruba Zoeloe Zweeds Mogelijk gemaakt door Translate © Berkshire West CCG 2021 Cookies Accessibility Sitemap WTDigital Fair Processing Notice