Neighbourhood teams are made up of multi-disciplinary healthcare, wellbeing and social care professionals including district nurses, rehabilitation teams, older people’s mental health team, hospice care, adult social care, consultant psychiatrist, care home teams and village agents.

By bringing all the essential health and social care service providers together at the same time, they can look holistically at complex patient needs to plan their personalised care and support. It saves time, shortens process and referral times, and is more efficient. 

For the patient, this means shorter wait times for assessment and treatment, involvement in their healthcare decisions, as well as less likelihood of hospital admission.

This is what the professionals say:

“Multi-disciplinary neighbourhood teams mean that everyone involved in a patient’s care can meet at the same time to discuss and plan personalised care and it has so many advantages for our patients and time saved for our colleagues”.

“I am overseeing the multi-disciplinary team meetings held for ten care homes in the area with the broad aim of improving health outcomes, ensuring equal access to the right health care and reducing unnecessary admissions to hospital”.