Neighbourhoods

Neighbourhood health is a key part of the 10 Year Health Plan for England, published on 2 July 2025.

The publication acknowledges the current hospital-centric approach of the NHS and the need to shift to provide continuous, accessible and integrated care via the development of a neighbourhood health service.

The plans says this will bring professionals into patient-centred teams, reducing fragmentation of care and improving access to general practice and enabling hospitals to focus on providing specialist care.

The Government says the neighbourhood health service will embody their new preventative principle that care should happen as locally as it can: digitally by default, in a patient’s home if possible, in a neighbourhood health centre when needed, in a hospital if necessary.