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Community health services (also known as community services) play a key role in keeping people well, treating and managing acute illness and long-term conditions, and supporting people to live independently in their own homes.
Community health services cover a wide range of services and provide care for people from birth to the end of their life. Community health teams play a vital role in supporting people with complex health and care needs to live independently in their own home for as long as possible.
- CORE Principles For Healthcare Professionals
- Taking Action
- Community-Centred Systems
- Understanding Local Needs
- Measuring Impact
The core principles of community-centred approaches are that they: 1. promote health and wellbeing or reduce health inequalities in a community setting, using non-clinical methods 2. use participatory methods where community members are actively involved in the design, delivery, and evaluation of services and locally-based activities 3. address bar...
If you’re a frontline health professional
You should: 1. understand the health needs of the local population, and the things that are influencing poor health for different communities 2. consider how people’s social and emotional needs are affecting their health, for example their relationships, social networks, and support in their neighbourhood 3. adopt person-centred and strengths-based practice when communicating with and assessing patients. This may involve health coaching and co-producing care plans. See the person-centred care...
If you’re a team leader or manager
Consider how community-centred approaches can be adopted by the team. National guidance by PHE and NHSE divided this into 4 strands of approaches, recognised by NICEguidance: 1. strengthening communities, for example, community development approaches to build action on health issues such as road traffic accidents, parenting support and green space use – as well as timebanking schemes that help build social networks for people with long-term conditions by neighbours helping each other out 2. v...
If you’re a senior or strategic leader
You should implement NICE guidance on community engagement (NG44), and also use the NICEquality standards for quality assurance and commissioning, to ensure: 1. members of the local community are involved in setting priorities for health and wellbeing initiatives. 2. members of the local community are involved in monitoring and evaluating health and wellbeing initiatives as soon as priorities are agreed 3. members of the local community are involved in identifying the skills, knowledge, netwo...
There is increasing recognition that reducing health disparities requires a complex system approach that puts communities at the heart of everything we do. Researchhas shown this can be achieved through: 1. greater involvement of communities in decision-making, delivery and evaluation 2. scaling integrated community-centred prevention at neighbourh...
A good understanding of local needs in relation to community life, social isolation, neighbourhood belonging and people’s emotional wellbeing and resilience is best collected locally by: 1. speaking to communities 2. listening to patients and carers 3. conducting local research to gain insight The local authority and voluntary, community and social...
NHS England (NHSE) worked with National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) on the Realising the Value project, on person and community-centred practice in health and care. It has produced a guideon modelling the potential impact of 5 approaches that have shown impact. These are: 1. peer support 2. self-management education 3. he...
Feb 28, 2018 · This professional resource focuses on the concept and practice of community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing and outlines how to create the conditions for community assets to...
Community health services. Shifting more care out of hospital and into the community is one of the improvements outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan and will help ensure we meet the changing health needs of the country over the coming decade.
Sep 20, 2021 · About 4 antecedents fundamental to a CHC included: secure funding; vision and support; adequate human resources; and governance structure. Consequences of CHCs are improved health outcomes, efficiency, and cost-effective provision of healthcare services.
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Definition. Community health centers are local health care providers that deliver comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health services to underserved populations.
