About the Community Network
Our priorities
We have agreed a number of key priorities with the members of our Community Network:
- Demonstrate how community services contribute to the NHS today and what they can offer its future
- Promote community providers’ role in managing system wide pressures (including winter)
- Seek greater prioritisation of children and young people’s community services
- Call for new payment mechanisms to enable a left-shift to earlier, more preventative care within a neighbourhood health service
We represent
We represent the views of providers of NHS community services to decision-makers, stakeholders and the media, giving national voice to their concerns. We shape the national policy debate to raise the profile of the pivotal role community services play in delivering high quality, integrated care.
We support
We support members to develop solutions by sharing ideas, insights and best practice with a particular focus on high-quality, integrated care for patients and service users. We develop products to support our members and influence on their behalf. To sign up to receive the Community Network’s newsletter, email sara.gariban@nhsproviders.org
We connect
We host three network events a year where members can come together, hear from senior leaders, including those working in the national bodies, and share their own learning.
In addition to the Community Network, being a member of the NHS Confederation means community provider members can also benefit from our other Confederation member forums, action learning sets, professional development programmes and connections across the system, including with our networks for integrated care systems, primary care networks, acute and mental health providers.
