Community services

Our work on NHS care delivered in a community setting

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.

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.

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Rekindling hope in public services

Ahead of the publication of our report on the Wigan Deal, Chris Naylor explores how devolving power to frontline staff and service users can create the positive culture needed for improvement.

Commissioned report

Insights from the spread of the primary care home

This report was commissioned by the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) and explores the factors that contributed to the spread of the primary care home.

Commissioned report

Investing in quality: The contribution of large charities to shaping future health and care

This commissioned report explores how the work of the National Garden Scheme and its beneficiaries contributes to supporting and shaping health and care.

2019 GSK IMPACT Awards: Suffolk Family Carers

Suffolk Family Carers supports unpaid carers of all ages across Suffolk.

2019 GSK IMPACT Awards: Refugee and Migrant Centre Black Country and Birmingham

The Refugee and Migrant Centre supports migrants and refugees through crisis and disadvantage, offering advice and assistance.

Community is the best medicine (Leeds event)

Community is the best medicine (London event)

Primary care networks: delivering integrated services at a neighbourhood level

Lessons from the Wigan Deal

The Wigan Deal is a social contract between the council and the community. This project will examine how and why the Deal was developed, how it has been put into practice, and what others might learn from it.

Mental health in primary and community care

A significant moment for general practice

A new five-year contract for general practice has been announced, with an increase in funding and plans to transform GP services. Beccy Baird and Anna Charles give their take on the key things you need to know.

The King's Fund welcomes the new contract for general practice

The King's Fund welcomes the new contract for general practice as a promising early sign that the government and NHS England are making good on the commitments in the NHS long-term plan.

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.

Social prescribing: a part of something bigger

Beccy Baird highlights how social prescribing must fit within a well-connected and sufficiently-funded system if it is to be successful.

Donna Hall

Donna Hall: the Wigan story

The Wigan Deal is a social contract between the council and the community — a partnership between citizen and state. Chris Ham talks with Donna Hall, Chief Executive of Wigan Council, about what happened in Wigan.

Tom Coffey: London's commitment to social prescribing

Hear about the Mayor of London's social prescribing strategy and plans for implementation.

Zoe Williams: The future for general practice using social prescribing

GP Dr Zoe Williams speaks at the closing plenary of our event in November 2018, Social prescribing: coming of age.

Bogdan Chiva Giurca: Engaging the future workforce in social prescribing

Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Founder and Chair, NHS England National Social Prescribing Student Champion Scheme, speaks at our event on November 2018, Social prescribing: coming of age.

Rt Hon Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care: Keynote address

Rt Hon Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, gives the keynote address at our event in November 2018, Social prescribing: coming of age.

How can community involvement reduce health inequalities?

Can community involvement in Morecambe Bay help reduce health inequalities that have existed over decades?

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.