What is the Enhance Programme?

The Enhance Programme is a partnership between 4 third sector delivery partners and LCH services, providing person-centred, holistic support for people at home receiving community-based healthcare. Enhance support is available for people over 50 living in the Armley Moor, Beeston, Chapeltown, Middleton and Seacroft Neighbourhood Team areas.

Why refer to Enhance?

Better to ask, why not! If a person lives alone with little or no support from family and friends, Enhance can help ensure the person is safe and warm, has food and social contact, is linked to other services, has access to benefits, etc. Working together, Enhance Delivery Partners save LCH staff time, reduce their concerns for the person and support that person in their recovery. Enhance will also prioritise supporting people to access self-management Health Hubs and Integrated Clinics.

Enhance provides:

• Proactive and responsive support to people referred by LCH services to promote recovery and rehabilitation, improve health and quality of life, prevent deterioration and support wider health and wellbeing for up to 12 weeks.
• Enhanced capacity for LCH services by reducing time spent on non-clinical tasks and reducing clinical demand for LCH clinicians by improving health and wellbeing for people.

Enhance Core Offer

Support to attend health appointments:

• Set appointment reminders
• Build confidence in getting out of the house independently
• Support to access transport

Support with health needs:

• Prompting exercise and mobility
• Support self management
• Support with setting up services to manage health
• Support with nutrition, hydration and access to food

Information and advice:

• Ensure a safe home environment
• Ensure access to appropriate welfare benefits
• Provision of regular contact/check-in for up to 12 weeks

Person-centred support:

• Home visits
• Opportunities for social connection

Partnership work:

• Joint visits
• Regular communication
• Agency advocacy, liaison and referrals

Find the right delivery partner for people over 50 living in your Neighbourhood Team area

Enhance postcode finder and map

North Leeds

• Chapeltown

• Seacroft

South Leeds

• Beeston
• Middleton

West Leeds

• Armley Moor

Enhance videos

In November 2023, we commissioned three videos focusing on staff and participants’ experience of Enhance and held a conference – ‘people ● prevention ● partnership: Sharing learning from year 2 of the Enhance programme. ‘

Read the conference outcomes here: Summary of conference outcomes

Enhance stories

Peter’s and Sandra’s stories

Dave’s story

Learning briefings

A series of concise briefings from the valuable learning gained from the Enhance programme, compiled and published as the programme evolves. 

Thematic reports

A series of short reports, written by independent evaluator Dr Sarah Alden, which draw on learning from the second year of the Enhance programme. Each report focuses on a specific theme, with real case studies.

Evaluation reports

Reports and analysis from evaluations of the Enhance programme.