Community, Health and Capital @ 19 Hills
A podcast series exploring new approaches to primary care, public health and public service delivery, supporting the 19 Hills Wellbeing Centre and community activities in Ringland, a small area in the east of Newport in south east Wales.
We talk to colleagues and partners around the UK and beyond on how shifting to prevention, prioritising action on the Social Determinants of health and community-owned models of service delivery could change lives - and give staff a better job and purpose.
Community, Health and Capital @ 19 Hills
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In our 9th episode we talk to Dr Connie Junghans, GP in Westminster, London, Senior Clinical Fellow at Imperial College London and Clinical Lead for the Community Health and Wellbeing Workers (CHWWs - hence the bad Star Wars joke...) programme in West London. Connie talks to us about how they've implemented this model of proactive and comprehensive programme in Westminster involving teams of workers visiting around 120 households several times a year to address unmet health and social needs.
The programme has the support of the National Association for Primary Care, NHS England's Professor Bola Owolabi and seems to be expanding into new areas each year across the UK - and with only £300 million estimated to fund the workers in the areas in greatest need across the UK, begs question if this should be a new feature in primary care planning.
Get in touch via podcasts@19hills.org if you have any feedback or would like to feature on an upcoming podcast of ours.