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Community-led and person-centred approaches play a crucial role in improving individuals’ and communities’ health and wellbeing, offering unique solutions that are more tailored to their specific needs. If the shifts from sickness to prevention and moving care closer to home are to be successful, stronger recognition of the role communities can play, and appropriate mechanisms for them to work in partnership with integrated care systems, their local health system and local authorities at the place and neighbourhood level, is needed.
Over two days, this King's Fund conference will explore what is required to achieve change so that communities can accrue more influence in driving improvements in the health and care outcomes that matter most to them. You will hear case study examples about the challenges of working in a community-led way and how these challenges were overcome to unlock the power of community-led approaches to health.
It will also consider changes that are happening in the wider context that will have an impact on this way of working, including devolution and an increased focus on the development of a neighbourhood health service, and the opportunities these could bring.