Community services

Our work on NHS care delivered in a community setting

Community is the best medicine (London event)

The aim of this event was to explore the role of communities in health and care. Health and care professionals, community organisations, innovators, commissioners, researchers and policy-makers came together to discuss how to create sustainable, community-based health and care.

Community health services explained

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 – and yet they are poorly understood compared to other parts of the NHS. In this explainer we set out what community services are, the challenges faced and how they're changing.

Supporting the Healthy New Towns programme

We are working with NHS England and other partners to support the Healthy New Towns programme. The programme provides an important opportunity to learn how local areas can use major new housing developments as an opportunity to promote population health and deliver integrated care.

Reimagining community services: making the most of our assets

This report looks at the current organisation of community health services and considers how the health and care system needs to change to meet the needs of populations now and in the future.

General practice: Our work on GPs and general practice

Adult social care: Our work on social care policy, services and reform

Social prescribing reading list

A selected list of references held by The King's Fund library.