The vanguard’s community and personal resilience workstream is focused on working with communities to promote self-care through education and a greater availability of health information, and on training staff to talk to people in a different way and involve them in making decisions about their own health and care.
Its aim is to reduce people’s dependency on health and social care by motivating them to have greater ownership, control and understanding of their own health and wellbeing, and by creating strong support networks within local communities.
Dudley Vanguard has introduced Integrated Plus workers.
Integrated Plus workers work alongside health and care professionals to take referrals for people in need of help.
They work with individuals to understand their needs and link them back into their community.
Their work is tackling the social isolation experienced by so many.
NG44. This guideline covers community engagement approaches to reduce health inequalities, ensure health and wellbeing initiatives are effective and help local authorities and health bodies meet their statutory obligations.
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