Community services

Our work on NHS care delivered in a community setting

Community is the best medicine: a community-centred approach to health and wellbeing

Join us at our virtual conference to explore how communities and health and care services can work together to make an impact on health and wellbeing outcomes.

Diagram showing the four main approaches to working with communities in improving health.

Communities and health

The role of communities in improving population health is receiving increasing, and long overdue, attention in health policy and practice. This piece gives an overview of the different approaches to working with communities for health.

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.

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.