About the project
Local residents are trained and employed to go door-to-door, helping people with health, money, isolation and housing problems. Through better take-up and less relience on A&E, this very popular role is having a direct impact on local health statistics up and down the country.
Local capacity created
Motivated people willing to be trained and ready to handle responsibility
All parties committed to building and resourcing a collaborative local healthcare model
Improved take-up of health screening and vaccination
Local people acting as health champions and stewards
Impact achieved
Taking pressure off acute services and over-stretched GPs
Improved health and social connections, increasing a sense of belonging
Better longer term health impacts through preventative care
Greater take-up and user-friendly services, leading to greater efficiency