Care closer to home: building the infrastructure for neighbourhood health

Across the NHS, leaders are being asked to deliver more care in communities, strengthen neighbourhood services, improve population health and reduce reliance on hospital-based care. But achieving these ambitions requires fundamental changes to how services are organised, funded and delivered. Neighbourhood health is not just about where care is delivered, but how it is organised around people and communities. Delivering neighbourhood health also depends on strong partnerships across the NHS, local government, social care and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, with many of the most successful models built on collaboration rather than organisational change alone. 

Despite successive governments repeating a vision of health and care services focused on communities rather than hospitals, that vision is very far from being achieved. The arrival of a new Prime Minister and administration creates an opportunity to accelerate reform but also raises fresh questions about how the ambitions for neighbourhood health and care closer to home will be delivered in practice. 

This virtual King's Fund conference will focus on the infrastructure needed to make care closer to home a reality. Through practical case studies, detailed presentations and discussion, delegates will explore how organisations are redesigning services, supporting innovation, developing new funding approaches and building the digital foundations required to deliver neighbourhood health at scale. 

Sessions will explore:

• how funding and incentives can better support prevention and community-based care

• how innovation can be adopted and spread across primary and community care

• creating the conditions for successful partnership working to deliver neighbourhood health

• the digital infrastructure required to support integrated models of care.

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