“Central to the 10 Year Health Plan, the services will bring NHS care closer to home and provide better support for people with complex conditions, keeping them well and avoiding unnecessary hospital trips.”
UK Government 9th July 2025
“If the NHS does not feel like a single, coordinated, patient-orientated service, that is for a simple reason: it is not one. It is hospital centric, detached from communities and organises its care into multiple, fragmented siloes. We need to shift to provide continuous, accessible and integrated care. The neighbourhood health service is our alternative. It will bring care into local communities, convene professionals into patient-centred teams and end fragmentation. In doing so, it will revitalise access to general practice and enable hospitals to focus on providing world class specialist care to those who need it.”
Fit for the future: 10 year health plan for England July 2025
“Our 10 Year Health Plan committed to building a Neighbourhood Health Service, and we’re hitting the ground running on delivering it. If we are to get patients cared for faster, on their doorstep and even in their own home, then we need to shift the focus of the NHS from hospitals to the community.”
Wes Streeting Health and Social Care Secretary
The UK Government 10 Year Health Plan priority is neighbourhood health including an ambition to deliver more urgent care in the community, in people’s homes or through neighbourhood health centres to end hospital outpatients as we know it by 2035. This is an ambitious target and will involve a complete restructure and refocusing of the NHS as we currently know it but how will it happen and how will it work? Making this shift happen will not be easy, this conference aims to share good practice of organisations who have started on the journey to Neighbourhood Health. The conference will also reflect on key questions such as how the finance flows will follow neighbourhood health, what is the role for secondary care in neighbourhood health, the initial focus for the first Places and how multidisciplinary teams will go beyond the current general practice model.
The conference will also learn from developing Neighbourhood Health Centres and examine the development of single and mult-neighbourhood providers. Topics will cover the shift from treatment to prevention, supporting technology, implementation support, understanding walk in demand, and home first.
Attending this conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working towards a Neighbourhood Health Service
Reflect on the transition to neighbourhood health
Understand your role in your neighbourhood team
Set up and run neighbourhood health service
Examine the 6 core components of neighbourhood health services
Understand the implications for GP practice and the role of secondary care in neighbourhood health
Explore financial flows and changes to contracting
Develop the skills and structure of Neighbourhood Multidisciplinary Health Teams
Shift the focus from treatment to prevention
Understand how to harness genomic technologies, diagnostics and the power of predictive analytics
Learn from organisations that are already working on neighbourhood health services
Understand the role of technology in supporting the transition
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
