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Reducing inequalities for deprived neighbourhoods in a simple, cost-effective and impactful way
Learning from the experience of the Brazilian health service and their 30-year-old Family Health Strategy with their 270,000-strong army of community health agents, this session will demonstrate how we adopted this approach in the UK. You will hear from a UK-based community health wellbeing worker about their role and details of how the programme is being implemented and spread to over 25 parts of the UK. This is a population health approach that is being deployed into those areas of highest deprivation.
This is an opportunity to hear how this approach can solve many of the challenges faced in the NHS today and links directly to the direction of travel outlined in the forthcoming ten-year health plan and the shifts of hospital to community and treatment to prevention.
