As part of the Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England, the newly announced NHS Neighbourhood Health is designed to deliver care closer to people’s homes, especially in the country’s most disadvantaged communities. Backed by £10 million in funding, the first wave of the programme covers 43 areas across England and aims to address long-standing health inequalities.
Neighbourhood Health is an NHS-led scheme which seeks to shift parts of care traditionally provided in hospitals into the community. Its core components include:
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Creation of neighbourhood health teams built around general practice. These teams will bring together community nurses, hospital doctors, social care workers, pharmacists, dentists, optometrists, paramedics, social prescribers, local government and voluntary sector organisations.
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Focus on providing end-to-end care that looks beyond single conditions to broader factors that affect health outcomes
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Initially targeting people with long-term conditions (such as diabetes, arthritis, angina, high blood pressure, multiple sclerosis, or epilepsy) in the areas with highest deprivation. Over time, this will expand to other priority groups.
"We are building an NHS fit for the future, one that fits around people’s lives and is an integral part of their community. "Neighbourhood health services fundamentally reimagine how the NHS works - bringing care closer to home while helping to tackle this nation’s shameful health inequalities."
Over the next year, the government intends to scale up neighbourhood health services more widely, learning from the first wave of 43 pilot sites which started on 9th September.
Read more: 'Millions of people to benefit from healthcare on their doorstep' UK Gov Press Release
Related event
Neighbourhood Health: Implementing the 10 Year Plan from Vision to Reality
Thursday 4th December 2025
Virtual Conference
In this conference you will learn from developing Neighbourhood Health Centres and examine the development of single and multneighbourhood providers. Topics will cover the shift from treatment to prevention, supporting technology, implementation support, understanding walk in demand, and home first. Attending this conference will enable you to:
• Network with colleagues who are working towards a Neighbourhood Health Service
• Examine the 6 core components of neighbourhood health services
• Understand the implications for GP practice and the role of secondary care in neighbourhood health
• Develop the skills and structure of Neighbourhood Multidisciplinary Health Teams
• Understand how to harness genomic technologies, diagnostics and the power of predictive analytics
