People across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are being invited to shape the future of local neighbourhood health and care services.
We want to work with local residents, community groups and partners to help shape plans for delivering more services closer to home, by completing an online survey and speaking to neighbourhood integrated teams who are out and about across local communities.
Watch our neighbourhood engagement film:
A key part of the engagement is to explain the aim of neighbourhood health and show how these new ways of working are already improving local access to health and care services, including:
- the successful mobile X-Ray car that significantly improves healthcare access for local people by providing X-rays in the comfort of their own homes or care homes, which sees 80% of patients at home avoiding the need for a trip to the hospital
- helping to prevent sickness, not just treating it, through our new integrated neighbourhood teams and community health and wellbeing workers who are referenced in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan
- how the NHS is moving from analogue to digital, with shared care records that enable approved health and care providers to access essential health information about their patients, and our frontline services using AI to identify and support patients most at risk of a hospital admission
How local people were able to get involved
- Attend local neighbourhood health and wellbeing events.
- Discover NHS teams in your community: look out for NHS stands, information points and pop-ups in local venues and at community events.
- Sign up for our Cornwall Together bulletin, sent monthly, to be kept informed about events and local health news.