Portsmouth Provider Partnership (P3)

Supporting the wellbeing, care and health needs of our city's residents through partnership working.

Overview

Portsmouth Provider Partnership (also known as P3) brings together the people and organisations that contribute to health and care in Portsmouth.

Together, we help our city residents to live healthier and happier lives by creating new ways to support people become less dependent on services.

We are trying to build a city that has:

Joined-up health and care services in the community
People and communities who feel better equipped to stay independent and well, for as long as possible
Improved access to services, with a focus on early support and prevention

We want people to maintain daily life skills, get better at things they struggle with, feel more confident, and improve their overall wellbeing.

Our purpose

P3 unites the people and organisations contributing to health and care in Portsmouth. Together, we support the wellbeing, care, and health needs of our city’s residents. We share experiences, collaborate, and innovate, highlighting our strengths and building on them for the benefit of our communities and neighbourhoods.

Hear from Andy Biddle, Director of Adult Social Care at Portsmouth City Council and Chair of P3.

https://vimeo.com/1014718199?share=copy#t=0

So Andy, tell me what P3 is.

So P3 is a collection of people that work in Portsmouth who are concerned about the health and care needs of our population.

So primary care; people from GP practises, those who work with the voluntary and community sector, our colleagues from NHS Solent, which is a Community Trust, and those people from the local authority, all of whom have an interest in health and care.

And what are the benefits of being part of this group?

So you can see some really innovative projects and pieces of work, often very small pieces of work that will make a real difference for our residents.

You also have the opportunity to refine your ideas.

So if you have an idea of something you think might work and might benefit our residents, you can bounce it off people with with years and years of experience who can help you refine it into what you wanted to do and help you think about what might make a difference and how you tell it to make a difference, so those sort of performance outcomes.

And is funding available at all through P3?

There are small pots of money available.

It’s not, it’s not a massive pot and it’s not a pot that will last forever.

But we do have a small pot of money and we tend to, the thing about Portsmouth I think very much is that you don’t necessarily grow oaks overnight, but you do grow acorns.

So it’s small pieces of practise that make a difference.

An example of that, and you’ll see this on the website at the moment, is a project to help our residents who have been detained under Mental Health Act develop a healthy exercise regime that can really make a difference to people if they continue exercising.

It can become a habit for life and that can that can have a positive impact on your mental health as well as your physical health.

That’s just an example of one of the projects.

So if you’ve got an idea like that and you want to get involved, how can you?

So all details are on the website, approach us.

We can help you refine your idea down and get it push it into a into a template that we can use.

It may be that your idea is something that makes a difference for people, so just get in touch.

What we want to achieve

Our work aligns with the five priorities of Health and Care Portsmouth, based on the Health and Care Portsmouth Joint Forward Plan 2024-25:

Children and young people
Health improvement and reducing health inequalities
Adults with the most complex lives and needs
Integrated community care
Person-centre care

Based on this, our ambitions for P3 are to:

Create new ways to help people become less dependent on services. These should help people keep their daily skills, get better at things they struggle with, feel more confident, and improve their overall wellbeing. We will offer the right support, at the right time, and in the right place.
Keep improving the unique approach we use in Portsmouth, which shows how working together can achieve the best results for our local people and communities.
Work together to influence things that affect health, like education, jobs, housing, transportation, city planning, and the environment.
Help our residents live healthier and happier lives by preventing diseases, making them more independent, and supporting everyone.

Who’s involved?

P3 includes all Health and Care Portsmouth partners and other organisations in the city, including:

Brunel Primary Care Network
Healthwatch Portsmouth
Island City Primary Care Network
HIVE Portsmouth
NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Portsdown Primary Care Network
Portsmouth City Council
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Portsmouth North Primary Care Network
Portsmouth South Coast Primary Care Network
Solent NHS Trust
South Coast Alliance

Reporting

The P3 delivery group meet monthly to share best practice, work together and collaborate on projects, and develop creative and innovative solutions to challenges facing health and care in the city.

There is a quarterly P3 Programme Board meeting and the group feeds into a quarterly Health and Care Portsmouth Partnership Board.

The team also work closely with the Health and Care Portsmouth delivery unit – a team of officers working on projects that sit under the Health and Care Portsmouth umbrella.

P3 Board Meeting in person - people sat around a table

What have we achieved so far?

In 2023/24, we hosted 20 delivery group meetings with 20-35 attendees at each meeting, from a range of providers and partners.

Key achievements include:

Development of a Heath Inclusion Service at Brunel Primary Care Network to deliver primary care health interventions to our homeless population
Development of a Weight Management Hub to provide psychological support for patients going through weight management treatment
Testing of a Breathlessness Diagnostic Hub in partnership with the Targeted Lung Heath Check programme, to support two Primary Care Networks with spirometry testing and reduce pressure on primary care
Implementation of 10 health kiosks in GP practices for patients to ask health questions, get their blood pressure and other vital signs taken, request oral contraception, NHS heath checks, diabetes appointments and more
Development of an 18-month Physical Activity Improved Lifestyles (PAIL) project to improve access to and support sustained engagement in exercise and physical activity across inpatient and community services for individuals living with mental health issues.

Current projects

In 2024/25, we’re focusing on work around:

Integrated neighbourhood working
St. Mary’s community campus
Women’s health
Mental health

Get involved

P3 welcomes attendees from any organisations involved in improving health and care in Portsmouth. The group offers space for collective discussion, feedback and development, as well as funding opportunities where appropriate.

View the documents below for more information:

If you’d like more information or to get involved, contact our P3 programme director Rebecca Burgos for more information.