The document contains pledges from various individuals to promote and support the initiative called "Caring Together" which aims to integrate care in Eastern Cheshire. Most pledges involve raising awareness of Caring Together through communications like adding logos to emails, briefing staff, promoting it during meetings, and encouraging sign-ups to the engagement program. Some individuals pledge to ensure Caring Together principles are considered in their work developing health and social care programs and services.

1. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Pledges
From the Communications Rally
March 2013

2. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Alexi Ness – Clinical Project Manager
To discuss/share and champion Caring Together
in the projects I work on and with the people I
work alongside

3. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
1. Attach the link onto the bottom of my emails.
2. Work with comms to raise awareness in the
neighbourhood we serve (internal & external).
3. Share with partners I work with
Andrew Tester – Health & Wellbeing Officer
Plus Dane Group

4. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Anne Marriott – East Locality Manager
I will ensure that the Caring Together brand is at
the core of the development of health and social
care community teams

5. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Bronwyn Barrow – Associate Director of OD &
Learning
To explore ways to raise awareness throughout
engagement programme - Your Voice and
through day to day contact with colleagues

6. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Chris Godfrey - Patient
Patient Group Awareness: To raise awareness of
integrated care and the H&W Centre through
the Toft Patient Group. To ensure continual
awareness through the Knutsford Town Planning
Implementation Group. In a personal
context, take opportunities to promote
awareness in informed discussions with friends
etc

7. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Cllr Janet Clowes – Portfolio Holder: Health &
Adult Social Care
Inform elected members of CEC of this initiative
(especially wards in East Cheshire). Liaise with
CE comms team to link to website. Brief social
care staff of CEC

8. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Dr Julia Huddart – GP ECCCG Clinical Lead
To promote Caring Together in my practice and
to other GP’s, Nurses & Receptionists. To
continue to work with and lead a multi-
disciplinary team with the aim of co-ordinating
care around the patient. To continue to work on
this agenda in my clinical team at the CCG.

9. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Elaine Adam – Head of Service Improvement
Brief my staff. Put up posters. Use logos etc
when applicable

10. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Elisabeth Street – Clinical Pharmacy Service
Manager
To discuss and explain the brand and integrated
care concept with pharmacy team at
Macclesfield Hospital. To attend Knutsford
Neighbourhood Team meetings and feed back to
pharmacy team

11. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Helen Bennett – Head of Transformation
Cheshire & Merseyside CSU
To share my learning about Caring Together and
the brand approach you are taking with
colleagues across the CSU, in order that we can
support you effectively if and when you need us.

12. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Helen Weston – Community Matron
Share principles of Caring Together through
workstreams of Integrated Care/Neighbourhood
Teams. Attach logo to emails.

13. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Hilary Heywood – Integral Health Solutions
I will share examples of good practice, tools and
techniques which are innovative and will
support the development of the Caring Together
programme

14. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Julia Cottier – Acting Services Director –
CWP East
To ensure that the branding is used in all visual
forms of communication and that staff are able
to explain to our service users what it means

15. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Jacki Wilkes – Head of Clinical Development
and Health Outcomes
Take responsibility to ensure all plans are
referenced to the principles of Caring Together

16. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Jane Critchley – Senior Manager – Individual
Commissioning and Peronalisation CEC
To continue to lead and motivate staff in the
engagement and involvement of the integrated
care agenda - Caring Together

17. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Richard Ellison-Smith
To work with colleagues to identify areas where
we can bring Caring Together to life in terms of
the real behaviours and changes needed to
make it work

18. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Rob Stead – Medical Director ECT
I will ensure Caring Together is a theme in my
role as Medical Director at ECT

19. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Sam Nichol – Integrated Care Programme
Director
To put the brand on every item I send out,
email, letters, minutes etc and also to live by
the Caring Together principles in every
interaction I have and in developing the
programme plans for integrated care

20. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Stewart Gardiner – Councillor CEC for Knutsford
1. To mention Caring Together wherever and
whenever possible throughout East Cheshire. 2.
To invite a representative of Caring Together to
attend a Knustford Town Council meeting

21. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Sue Dean – Project Manager
Use materials provided with out project working
groups to better describe their contribution and
encourage them to get their teams to register
on the Eng HQ

22. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Tori Bell – ECCCG Clinical Project Manager
Promote the Caring Together brand to
colleagues from the local authority, third
sector, other CCGs and acute trust when
working on commissiioning services together.

23. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Val Aherne – Deputy CEO
Writing a Board paper tomorrow and will
include this. Really sorry to be leaving at this
stage (professionally). I will now join the public
campaign and have ideas to share with you

24. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Justin Johnson – Strategic Development
Manager
Raise awareness at staff meeting 26/3

25. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Karen Burton – Clinical Project Manager
1. Include in all emails etc and 2. Ensure
included on all agendas for my projects e.g.
Nursing homes, self management support,
raising the awareness of Caring Together

26. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
John Parker – Workforce Planner
I will spread the word by promoting the brand
that this is genuinely a different and open
process

27. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Kath Senior – Director of Nursing, Performance
& Quality
I will commit to raising the profile of Caring
Together getting it on Trustwide agendas and
engaging staff to contribute to the engagement
HQ. The brand will be used in as many Trust and
patient activities as possible. I will add logos to
my email signature.

28. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Liz Kirk – Learning & Organisational
Development Business Partner
Take every opportunity to talk about Caring
Together with colleagues

29. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Paul Bowen – GP Chair
• I'll ensure I allow the aspirations set out by the
comms group to motivate the rest of the
programme into action/progress. We need to
be sure the progress of service design keeps
up with the promises of the campaign.

30. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Rebecca Patel – Public Engagement Manager
I pledge to actively encourage people to sign up
to the engagement HQ and to ensure that
patients, carers and staff engaged in the CCG are
aware of Caring Together and its progress

31. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Matthew Cunningham
1. I will not say integrated care - I will say Caring
Together. 2. One day a week I will dedicate to
Caring Together. 3. I will develop a Caring
Together staff champion programme of the CCG

32. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Nikki Hotchin – Clinical Projects Coordinator
Brilliant session. I will pledge to share and
support and embed the principles, aims and
values of Caring Together in my day to day role
and thinking within the CCG

33. Integrating Care in Eastern Cheshire
Liz McGill – Chair ECT
Share messages with staff. Provide visability for
message. Understand resource requirements so
we might identify people where possible. Share
resources and sign up to principles