THE ESTHER NETWORK
The ESTHER Network is made of caregivers, clinicians, patients, and families who work to promote and improve the complex care in Region Jönköping county. “Esther” is a symbolic person, with complex care needs who requires the coordination and integration between hospital, primary care, home care, and community care. Esther is at the center of all our daily work.
Award-winning. "The ESTHER Network is the best initiative to support active and healthy aging." With this review and in competition with 600 nominees, ESTHER received a destinguished prize from the EU at the conference "Opening Up an Era of Social Innovation" Dec 21st 2017.
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The Swedish Health care sytem
Collaboration - what we have learned together in the learning network until November 2017
This is a new video about what has happened in Singapore, UK and Sweden during the last years with the ESTHER approach? Recorded in Jönköping, Sweden 2 November 2017 - a presentation made by Anna Carlbom, Kent, UK, Esther Lim, Singapore, and Nicoline Vackerberg, Region Jönköping, Sweden.
The Esther Network - a presentation
An interview with Anna Carlbom, Esther coordinator, Sweden, 2015.
Welcome to the Network!
Our Vision
To create a durable and energetic network in which Esther can feel confident and lead an independent life. Esther should know where to turn, get care in or close to her home, see us as the same provider of care and have the possibility to get the same care all over Höglandet, Region Jönköping County.
Our Work
We use tools of continuous quality improvement and coaching to increase competence of the whole care chain, and reduce redundancy for Esther.
Our Organization
The Esther Network spans continents. We share ideas with Esther's from Singapore to Toronto. Here in Hoglandet, in the south of Sweden, we are - so far - made up of six municipalities.
There are many meetings across the Esther Network. Esther's organizing committee is comprised of directors from hospital, primary care, social care, department of medicine. In every municipality there are smaller networks where Esther coaches have been trained to empower staff to always have Esther in mind, and to create projects which improve her journey through the health system.
Esther coaches
There are about 150 Esther coaches within healt care and social care. They act as coachers and in their normal profession at the same time in their dayly work To be an Esther coach requires a passion for Esther and an improvement drive. There is an Esther coach education of eight days multiprofessional learning. Today we have two levels of coaching.
Filmed seminar
Seminar with Marjory Godfrey, Ph.D, about Esther coaches
Esther Network Singapore 2016. A short video about workshops and learning together with Esther Network in Singapore, lead by Nicoline Vackerberg, improvement leader from Qulturum, Region Jönköpings län in Sweden, summer 2016. Time: 2:36.
A brochure
What is best for ESTHER?
A small brochure about the ESTHER Network, 2017. To download, print and fold to four pages.
What matters to Esther?
A brochure about the ESTHER Network, produced in Kent, UK.
Reports
Care staff leadership implementing the Esther care model at a care home in Kent,2018
The Primary Partnership ( 2017) Advisory board,International Global Forum for Health Care Innovators s 16-17
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/case-studies/2016/sep/sweden-esther-case-study
What Is Best for Esther? Building Improvement Coaching Capacity With and for Users in Health and Social Care—A Case Study 2016 Vackerberg N, Thor J, Levander M. Quality Management in Health Care:January/March 2016 - Volume 25 - Issue 1 - p 53–60
Patient and Citizen Engagement for Health: Lessons from Jönköping County, Sweden
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2015
Eu models of care 2015 - webinar about The Esther Network by NHS European office
NHS European Office blogging about Esther 2015
CNN ranking Esther as one of the cooolest innovations in the world 2014
Quality, development and leadership 2012
Case studie Esther 1997 - 2011
Charles Kenney; The best practice pp 228-229
Sustained Improvement? - Øvretveit, John BSc (Hons), MPhil, PhD, C. Psysch, MIHM; Staines, Anthony MBA, MHA, MPA
Method
Health care Process Reengineering; HPR method (pdf, new window)
Training program for Esther improvement coaches
Filmed interviews
What does Esther - not only need but want?! - the development of the Esther Network from 1997 to 2012
Inge Werner, 86, talks about the Esther network
Improved medication for elderly
Esther coaches in Kent, UK, talking about the value of being an Esther coach:
Wendy, a senior care assistant
Helen, a social and family coordinator
More films about Esther here, and about Esther coaching here, a few in English.
Esther Newsletter
Esther International Newsletter
Organization and Contact
The Organization for the Esther Network and whom to contact
Timeline
Timeline of the Esther network
(pdf, new window)
Archive
Create a poster
How to create a good looking poster (pdf). From Singapore visiting Jönköping nov 2017.