Community Approaches to Health and Wellbeing - New Guidance

Kevin Fenton, PHE’s National Director for Health and Wellbeing, reflects on NICE’s new guidance on community engagement in his latest blog for Public health matters, and shares some recent highlights from PHE’s work on community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing.

The new guidelines, which support the NHS, local authorities and other service providers to better engage local communities in decisions that affect their lives, has been informed by PHE’s own guide to support local areas to develop community-centred approaches to health and wellbeing.
 

In the past year community-centred approaches have become more embedded in public health services and in health and social care. The new NICE guidelines will help to build on this progress, providing a clear mandate for collaboration with communities to plan, design, develop, deliver and evaluate public health, using the PHE guide as a framework for developing options in practice. 

To read more, go to: https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/04/local-first-nice-guidance-is-clear-mandate-for-community-approaches-to-health-and-wellbeing/