“We are guests in someone else’s neighbourhood”

 

Manchester Local Care Organisation’s Wythenshawe (Brooklands) & Northenden Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) is working towards a new model of neighbourhood working across Manchester.

 

It's one of the 12 INTs in the city - each working across an approximate population of 30-50,000 people. On a practical level INTs bring NHS community health and adult social care services together to improve how they work for people. Staff will be located together in the same building and can work together. That means that district nurses, social workers and other staff meet each day, carry out joint visits and discuss the best plan for people in their care.

 

As little as 10% of a population’s health and wellbeing is linked to access to Healthcare so the teams also work in the place they are based with other organisations (for example the police, council neighbourhood teams and housing), and importantly local community groups and people who live in the area to improve services.

 

The neighbourhood team hold bimonthly Neighbourhood Partnership meetings and are committed to ensuring that plans, initiatives and solutions are genuinely co-produced, involving local residents, organisations and communities of interest.

 

To find out more information about Wythenshawe and Northenden’s neighbourhood work please contact rachel.harding9@nhs.net

 

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