Neighbourhood Health Engagement

Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board is working towards a vision for providing more care closer to our communities through an ambitious plan for Neighbourhood Health.

Neighbourhood Health is how health, care and wider support work together around people and communities, close to where they live. It recognises that health and wellbeing are shaped by everyday life, including housing, work, transport, environment and social connection, as well as health and care services. It brings health, social care, public health, community organisations and many more partners together in neighbourhoods.

Support is organised in connected layers, so people can move easily around different types of help as their needs change. Importantly, we will also work together to create the conditions for healthy, happy lives.

Neighbourhood Health is how we make this real, day to day, in places and communities and focuses on:

• working closer to where people tell us would be of greatest help

• joining up services around neighbourhood populations

• supporting people earlier, better and more consistently

• using shared foundations to work as one system, not separate parts

This is about changing how we work together, not adding new layers or complexity.

We need to know what our communities think about our plans and capture ideas, suggestions and  feedback to inform decisions about neighbourhood health. Sharing your views in our short survey will help inform the development and design of our Neighbourhood Health plans.

Share your views today – link to Neighbourhood health - Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB