11 February 2015

Family of community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing

Health and wellbeing: a guide to community-centred approaches
NHS England, PHE 11 February 2015
  • The case for change, the concepts, and the varieties of approach that have been tried and tested to support community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing.
  • There is a diverse range of practical, evidence-based approaches that can be used by local leaders, commissioners and service providers to work with communities. These are grouped into: strengthening communities; volunteer and peer roles; collaborations and partnerships; access to community resources 
  • A family of community-centred approaches has been developed to represent some of the practical, evidence-based options that can be used to improve community health and wellbeing. The approaches map the range of options to achieve a shift to more person and community centred ways of working in public health and healthcare. 
  • A Briefing sets out the case for change and implications for commissioning and practice.