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Health & Social Care

The need for new and innovative ways of dealing with the health care challenges posed by an ageing population grows more pressing by the day.

And rural areas such as ours have specific challenges in addressing healthy ageing. Patients often have to travel a long way to access key services whilst care providers can struggle to make their offer viable.

Innovative healthcare offers the opportunity to address health and social care challenges in dispersed populations such as ours. It can revolutionise care commissioning and provision through data driven prevention and remote monitoring.

The Marches has emerging capabilities in digital health and assistive technology. The Living Circle provides cloud-based services for health and care organisations. Bronze Labs, a Telford-based company with expertise in the Internet of Things and cloud computing software, has recently launched The Tribe Project. This nationally significant project aims to support NHS and adult social care resourcing through machine learning to identify areas of high resource need and better allocate resources.

Shropshire has been selected as one of nine local authorities in a Government funded programme to explore how technology can shape the future of social care through piloting a data visualisation tool to identify areas of need for care homes and domiciliary care.

Another technology project being trialled in Shropshire brings together the Council, The Lady Forester Centre, UCS, local GPs, the community and large technology companies Hitachi, Microsoft and Amazon to use smart watches, voice activated devices and messaging to support independence amongst vulnerable people.

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The Marches Local Enterprise Partnership has now ceased trading and transferred all its functions to Shropshire Council working with Telford & Wrekin Council and Herefordshire Council, in line with the UK Government's plans for devolution.

The Marches LEP was established in 2011 and hands over an impressive legacy from its 13-year life. In that time the LEP invested over £196m in projects across the Marches, securing in excess of £100m of match funding and supported more than 66,000 business interactions.

The schemes supported have made tangible differences to local communities, increasing skills, creating jobs and improving the physical appearance of many towns.

We would like to thank all the LEP Board Members who have given their time freely over the life of the LEP, as well as all the staff who worked for the LEP over the years. We also want to thank our delivery partners, local education providers and local, regional and national stakeholders who helped us achieve so much.

The Marches Growth Hub will continue to support businesses and will be managed by Shropshire Council, supported by Telford and Wrekin and Herefordshire Councils. Each of the three Local Authorities will also continue to provide direct business support locally. Details of this support will be available through the Marches Growth Hub website and from the Local Authorities directly. Website: www.marchesgrowthhub.co.uk | email: enquiries@marchesgrowthhub.co.uk.

The Marches Careers Hub will continue to be delivered and will be managed by Shropshire Council, supported by Telford & Wrekin and Herefordshire Councils. Website: www.marchescareershub.co.uk | email: info@marchescareershub.co.uk

For any queries about Getting Building Fund (GBF), Local Growth Fund (LGF) and Marches Investment Fund (MIF) projects supported by the Marches LEP please contact: gary.spence@shropshire.gov.uk

For any finance queries please contact: michelle.hodgkiss@shropshire.gov.uk

The solvent liquidation of the Marches LEP is being managed by the Evelyn Partners Limited. For any matter related to this please contact: Camilla.Mulholland@evelyn.com

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