How to Make Neighbourhood Health Really Happen

“The Coalition for Personalised Care has co-developed with its members a practical means of using personalised care to help achieve the national three shifts: from disease to prevention, from hospital to community and from analogue to digital.

Our proposal complements the 10 Year Health Plan for England and the NHS Neighbourhood Health framework. It uses existing polices, flexibilities and procedures (so no need for primary legislation to make it happen) woven together in a novel way. Taken together with work already recommended within our Community Strengthening strategy it would help make health and care sustainable and would also lay the foundations for implementing a future National Care Service.

Putting these ideas into practice would be a radical change, but it’s entirely doable right now. The Comprehensive Model for Personalised Care is an enabler for this work. The thinking behind this proposal comes from work developed during the Personalised Care Programme (with particular thanks to colleagues from Cornwall, Juliet Ferris and Emma Rowse). The NHS nationally say personalised care is now “business as usual”, we know that’s not really the case in practice. This proposal would make it a reality.”

Frances Tippett, CEO

Proposals in full as follows:

A New Approach to Health and Social Care v4 – summary paper

How integrated neighbourhood operating budgets might work – alternative version

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Community Strengthening – Stronger Communities Paper

The path to a healthier, cohesive and inclusive nation lies in its communities. It’s time to think differently, to reshape our country by harnessing the strengths of our local populations and redefining health and wellbeing and tackling health inequalities. The conditions for enabling communities to fulfil this role do not lie only with those communities, they also depend on government support…..