Ten-week CPD module
The Neighbourhood Health Service
Ten weeks on the shift from hospital to community, and what it takes to deliver it
By the end of the module a reader can read a local neighbourhood health plan and say what it commits to, whether the evidence supports it, and what would show in three years that it worked.
Who it is for
Health, care and local government professionals working on neighbourhood health, integrated care, population health or community services.
Built for the professions City St George's trains
Each week carries a panel written for the professions City St George's trains, and a joint task that two or more of them would have to do together. The aim is not general teamwork language. It is practice at the specific negotiations a neighbourhood team forces: who owns a cohort, who carries a risk, who notices the patient nobody is seeing.
Professions covered: Medicine (doctors), General practice and primary care (including physician associates), Practice nursing (general practice nurses), Community nursing and district nursing, Midwifery, health visiting and school nursing, Mental health nursing and mental health practice, Psychological therapies and applied psychology, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Speech and language therapy, Radiography (diagnostic and therapeutic), Paramedic science, Optometry and primary eye care, Pharmacy (pharmacists and pharmacy technicians), Public health and local government, Voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) partners, Healthcare science (clinical physiology and biomedical science), Nursing associates.
The ten weeks
What you will be able to do
- Explain the three shifts in the 10 Year Health Plan and place each one in its policy history since 2006.
- Describe the components of the neighbourhood health framework and the duties it places on integrated care boards, local government and health and wellbeing boards.
- Judge a proposed neighbourhood footprint against the evidence on population size, natural communities and team caseload.
- Specify an integrated neighbourhood team for a named cohort, and defend the skill mix with evidence.
- Use population health management to find an impactable cohort, and state the limits of risk prediction tools.
- Design a prevention offer that fits a neighbourhood, and name the inequalities it could widen.
- Assess the digital requirements of a neighbourhood service and the exclusion risks in each one.
- Read the neighbourhood health centre design and performance specification and test a local scheme against it.
- Explain how neighbourhood services are funded and contracted, including pooled budgets, devolved care budgets and outcome-based contracts.
- Set out how a local system would evaluate its own neighbourhood service, and what evidence would count.
- Work with professionals from other disciplines on a shared neighbourhood problem, and say what each brings that the others cannot.
Assessment
| Component | Weight |
|---|---|
| Weekly multiple choice and applied essay (ten weeks) | 30 per cent |
| Neighbourhood diagnosis: a 3,000 word analysis of one real neighbourhood footprint and team | 50 per cent |
| Interprofessional practice log: four of the joint tasks written up from two professions' perspectives, 1,500 words | 20 per cent |
The weekly questions are formative. The diagnosis essay is the assessed piece, and it uses a neighbourhood you can name.