To celebrate the release of the community chest evaluation report, Transformation Partners in Health and Care welcome you to join them for a webinar, hosted in collaboration with Care City. During this session, they will share key findings, learnings and recommendations that can help system partners interested in adopting a similar approach in their localities.
Date: Thursday, 14th November 2024 Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
The evaluation comes at a perfect time as they are seeing greater emphasis being placed on community integration and prevention, for example through the development of the Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and the recent findings in the recent Darzi report, the Community Chest presents a unique enabler to realise this vision.
Conducted by Care City, this evaluation highlights the success of the programme in fostering partnerships between local authorities, the NHS, and the Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector across Tower Hamlets and Barking & Dagenham. Key learnings from the evaluation regarding the enablers of success for the Community Chest programme include:
Addressing existing relationships and power dynamics: between statutory and non-statutory partners
Using local insights to identify unmet needs: a mixed methods approach should be adopted, combining existing data analysis and consultations with social prescribers and other frontline staff
Proportionate data collection and evaluation: Careful consideration should be given to the minimum viable data set required for evaluation and monitoring
Professor Kevin Fenton, OHID London Regional Director said:
“The Community Chest has had a profound positive impact on our local communities. I am delighted to see how pooling local resources and encouraging partnership working has supported the health and wellbeing of residents most in need. The insights and recommendations from the Community Chest model demonstrates the power of this collaborative approach. I look forward to seeing how the learnings from this programme can continue to support local communities in addressing health inequalities.”
