Overview
Almost a year ago the Health Minister published Health and Social Care NI – A Three Year Plan to Stabilise, Reform and Deliver’ setting out his vision to rebalance health and social care delivery and provide more care closer to home. Reform in primary, social and community care was identified as a key enabler to create capacity within the system to better manage acute and chronic needs, reduce reliance on secondary care and facilitate a preventative approach to health and social care that supports people to stay well for longer.
Delivering upon this agenda requires a focus on how, where, and by whom care is best delivered and approaches that both mobilise and optimise the impact of existing skills, capacity and assets within Health and Social Care (HSC), Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) and other place-based organisations.
It means developing new partnerships and ways of working at neighbourhood level to understand how services can be designed and delivered to best serve communities, based upon their specific needs and reflecting the resources available to them. Recognising that in many cases health outcomes are influenced by social determinants like housing, poverty and social isolation which connected neighbourhood models could be better positioned to address.
To find out more click the link below
Call for Evidence – Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Model of Care – NI Direct – Citizen Space
