Overview
- Wave one spans 43 areas across England, prioritising places with low life expectancy and high deprivation.
- A £10 million implementation fund will pay for programme leads to set up the local services.
- General practice will anchor multidisciplinary neighbourhood teams that deliver coordinated, end-to-end care plans.
- Voluntary contracts offer practices a choice between single-neighbourhood providers serving around 50,000 people or multi-neighbourhood providers serving around 250,000.
- Initial services will target patients with conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, with plans to move diagnostics, outpatients and rehabilitation into community settings over the next year and some sites beginning activity in October.