Sarah Churchill, Social Finance
Sarah has extensive experience working with NHS commissioners and providers across operational and pipeline end of life care services in the two social investment funds managed by Social Finance. This includes focusing on better understanding, monitoring and ultimately improving impact for service users through outcomes-based dashboards (including Patient Centred Outcome Measures) as well as wider quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Strengths I bring: Partnership across sectors for sustainable change, focus on outcomes and impact at scale, exploring different funding mechanisms to implement change at scale.
What I would like the network to achieve: Social Finance is delighted to be a part of this progressive, multidisciplinary network of researchers, service providers and people with lived experience. We hope to contribute learnings from our Dementia programme, connect members of our Learning Community with the EMPOWER Network, and explore potential partnerships that could lead to improved outcomes for people living with Dementia and their unpaid carers.
Ms Prerana Kaneri
I am most interested in initiatives at the intersection of health, wellbeing, and social justice—particularly those that bring together public, philanthropic, and private sector partners who are committed to equity and sustainable, systems-level change.
Strengths I bring: Systems thinking, health equity, and person-centred approaches
What I would like the network to achieve: Hearing from others in the network about lessons learnt and their achievements, as well as exploring opportunities to collaborate.
Social Finance is a not for profit that focuses on bringing different partners together to tackle entrenched problems. Regarding dementia, we are currently running a learning programme until Summer 2024 to test where there are value opportunities to enhance and develop services for older people with complex needs and people living with dementia. The programme is collecting learning on what works well and what doesn’t work to improve outcomes for people, services and systems to provide a case for change / an opportunity for alternative funding mechanisms.
www.socialfinance.org.uk/work/driving-innovative-models-of-dementia-care-through-social-investment