Are you are working in neighbourhood health? Come join our practitioner led learning community.
Applications are open to join our new community launching February
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A New Community Space
We are delighted to announce the formation of the Neighbourhood Health Academy, co founded by John Paul Crofton-Biwer and Dr Kiran Cheedella.
The Academy aims to support learning and development in people working together to deliver neighbourhood health.
The Academy grows out of the Neighbourhood Health Community and responds to a simple but pressing reality. Neighbourhood health is now a core NHS priority, yet many teams are being asked to design, govern and deliver new models of care in conditions of real world complexity. Whilst trying to fit between the demand of different organisations.
What is the Neighbourhood Health Academy?
The Neighbourhood Health Academy is a free cross sector, practitioner led learning community for people working with or within neighbourhood across health, care and local systems.
It is a place for peer to peer learning, shared learning, knowledge and capability building, grounded in real world practice and clinical reality.
The Academy brings together clinicians, commissioners, neighbourhood teams, local authorities, VCSE partners, and digital and data specialists who are grappling with the same questions from different angles.
What the Neighbourhood Health Academy does
The Academy supports members to:
- Build strong partners across organisations and disciplines.
- Design and refine neighbourhood health models of practice to address real community needs.
- Work through challenges such as business cases, governance, MDT working, workforce models, and clinical and nonclinical pathways.
- Navigate commissioning, approvals and assurance processes without losing the intent of neighbourhood working.
- Develop proportionate, credible approaches to evidence, measurement and evaluation that support learning and adaptation.
- Take a person centred relational approach to addressing people’s needs.
- Share practical experience of what is changing on the ground, including unintended consequences and trade offs.
- Be a source of shared wisdom and learning to connect people with solutions.
Alongside peer learning, the Academy hosts facilitated discussions, working groups on the most relevant topics, and practical resources such as templates, examples and shared models.
The emphasis is on matching practicality, and clinical credibility with theory and effective strategy, not polished answers or performative success.
Who the Neighbourhood Health Academy is for
The Academy is for people actively involved in neighbourhood health, including:
- Clinicians and clinical leaders
- Neighbourhood and place based team leads
- Commissioners and population health teams
- Local authority and VCSE partners
- Transformation, improvement and programme leads
- Digital, data and analytics professionals supporting neighbourhood models
What matters most is a genuine commitment to working together improving neighbourhood health in practice and enable people in communities to live longer healthier lives and improve wellbeing..
How to join…
The community is free and there is no cost to membership. Membership is open, but not automatic.
To help build a focused, constructive community, tailored to your needs, we ask applicants to complete a short application quiz. This is not a test. It helps ensure the Academy remains relevant, psychologically safe and practically useful for those involved.
The quiz takes only a few minutes to complete.
Applications are now open ahead of our February launch.
👉 Apply to join via the short quiz in the link below:
If you are working on neighbourhood health and want to learn alongside others navigating the same challenges, we would be very glad to welcome you.
Further Information:
If you would like to know more, you can visit https://edgeofpossible.com/neighbourhood-health-community/
Or message me directly on LinkedIn.