About the project
Growing Health Together is commissioned by the local Integrated Care Board to assist GP surgeries to collaborate with communities to improve health across the county. This innovative partnership has produced multiple inclusive activities in support of health and wellbeing – from community gardening to sport. - and is demonstrating the tangible benefits to health of non-formal health interventions.
Local capacity created
Community organisations actively collaborating with each other and with official bodies
People less dependent on primary and acute health services
Awareness that behaviour impacts health
Impact achieved
Productive partnerships between local people and service providers
Taking pressure off acute services and over-stretched GPs
Well-attended services and wide use of social prescribing
Flourishing indoor and outdoor activities, improving physical and mental wellbeing