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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.
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. What are community health services? Community health service webinars. Enhanced health in care homes.
- What Are Community Services?
- Who Uses them?
- Who Provides Community Health Services?
- How Are Community Services Regulated and How Is Quality assessed?
- How Are Community Health Services Funded?
- What Are The Opportunities and Challenges For Community Services?
Community health services aimto improve the health and wellbeing of people of all ages, including from birth. They also treat and manage long-term conditions, bring care closer to home, and allow people to live independently in their own homes. Some of the key services delivered include district nursing for older people; health visiting for childre...
It is estimated that over 100 million contacts are made with community services each year – these could range from a visit from a district nurse at home, a child attending a speech and language clinic, or a patient getting a blood test. People with more complex health needs may need care from several different community services, and in some cases ...
The organisations that provide NHS-funded community services are often grouped into a few categories, including trusts (acute, mental health, community and combined NHS trusts), community interest companies, private providers, local government and the third sector. The varied organisational arrangements reflect the impact of successive NHS reorgani...
All health and care services are regulated by the Care Quality Commission. The most recent ratings (reported in October 2022) found that 75% of all core community services rated as good and 13% rated as outstanding. Yet the fine print underneath these ratings suggests that the CQC finds it difficult to regulate community providers because they are ...
Comprehensive information on funding and spending by community services is as elusive as information on staff. Income data is available for NHS community trusts, but this will not include community services delivered by acute, mental health or combined trusts. Data collected by NHS organisations on the cost of services is more complete, but still d...
Last July, integrated care boardswere established in England, with the goal of improving coordination and collaboration of services, centred on the patient, and meeting population health needs. Community health services are central to this vision of integrated health and social care, working as they do with the most vulnerable patients and providin...
There is a single source of the truth about community health services from which the NHS can easily draw the timely, actionable insights we need to deliver high quality, safe, personalised care, and best outcomes for people.
May 12, 2021 · This infographic explains: the role community health services play in the NHS healthcare system. how the services have been central to the NHS response to COVID-19. what is needed for the services to continue and to be able to rise to new challenges created by COVID-19.
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Jan 23, 2018 · Community health services explained. Community health services are poorly understood compared to other parts of the NHS. So what are they, how are they organised and what challenges are they facing?
