Topic: Community services

Our work on NHS care delivered in a community setting

Tackling multiple unhealthy risk factors: emerging lessons from practice

Our report shares learning and insight from services that are using innovative ways to address the problem of multiple unhealthy behaviours – around tobacco use, alcohol consumption, diet and physical activity – in the population.

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.

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.

Understanding quality in district nursing services: Learning from patients, carers and staff

This report investigates what good district nursing care looks like and looks at the growing demand capacity gap in district nursing and the worrying impact that this is having on services, the workforce and the quality and safety of patient care.

Caring for people with learning disabilities: the importance of support in the right place

Multiple unhealthy risk factors: why they matter and how practice is changing

Harry Evans discusses why we need to take a holistic approach to supporting behaviour change and looks at how services are innovating to tackle multiple unhealthy risk factors.

Community is the best medicine: making a reality of community-based health

Volunteering in general practice

Volunteering in general practice: opportunities and insights

Interest is growing in the contribution that volunteering can make in health and social care. This paper examines the ways in which volunteers are involved with, and are contributing to, general practice.

Transforming general practice through volunteering

Transforming general practice through volunteering

In a guest blog to accompany our volunteering report, Kay Keane shares her experience of developing a community-centred general practice approach through building a community of volunteers.

Anna Charles: Reimagining community services

Anna Charles presents the findings of our report Reimagining Community Services.

Sam Everington: Community services - making the most of our assets

Presentation by Sam Everington from our breakfast event for the launch of the report Reimagining Community Services.

Debs Taylor: Community services - making the most of our assets

Presentation by Debs Taylor from our breakfast event for the launch of the report Reimagining Community Services.

Matthew Winn: Community services - making the most of our assets

Presentation by Matthew Winn from our breakfast event for the launch of the report Reimagining Community Services.

Community services: making the most of our assets

Making the most of our assets: the time has come to realise the full potential of community services

In the context of the current unprecedented pressures on the NHS, it is now more important than ever that everyone involved in the health and care system pays proper attention to community services and all they have to offer.

Key milestones in community health services policy

Throughout the history of the NHS, a series of policies have sought to strengthen and co-ordinate services outside hospitals, and community services have been subject to multiple reorganisations. This timeline sets out the key policy milestones.

Age UK care co-ordinator roles

Older people with long-term conditions often face a bewildering array of disconnected services rather than joined-up, holistic care. In 2012, Age UK decided to use its skills and resources to support the health and care system in addressing these problems.

Improving diagnosis and treatment for atrial fibrillation

Around a million people in the UK suffer from atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat associated with coronary heart disease, which causes dizziness, tiredness and shortness of breath. Without appropriate treatment, people with atrial fibrillation are up to five times more likely to suffer strokes.

Luke Edwards: Review into the operational productivity of mental health and community services

Luke Edwards shares updates on the Carter review into community and mental health services.

Community health services: shifting the focus to out-of-hospital care

Realising the potential of allied health professions

In this guest blog, speech and language therapist Joanne Fillingham makes the case for a stronger leadership role for allied health professionals (AHPs).

2017 GSK IMPACT Awards: Sight Cymru

Sight Cymru supports people in Wales who have lost or are losing their sight to live independently.

What if the NHS moved most care out of hospitals?

Our essay competition winner looks at how the NHS might change if the government increased taxation and used this money to fund services closer to home.

What is social prescribing?

Social prescribing enables GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services. But does it work? And how does it fit in with wider health and care policy?

General practice: Our work on GPs and general practice

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

Long-term conditions: Our work on NHS care for people with chronic illness or disability