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As systems face rising demand, workforce constraints and pressure on urgent care, the shift to neighbourhood and community-based models is no longer optional - it is critical to delivery. 

As NHS systems move from strategy to delivery, the challenge is no longer defining “care closer to home” - but implementing it in practice.

Leaders across primary care, community services, mental health and systems are under increasing pressure to reduce demand on acute services, improve access, and deliver measurable impact on patient outcomes.

The HSJ Care Closer to Home Forum brings together senior decision-makers responsible for delivering this shift - to share what is working, where the barriers remain, and how systems can operationalise neighbourhood care at scale.

The Forum will run alongside the HSJ Reducing Health Inequalities Forum. 

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What can you expect

  • Practical insight into how systems are reducing demand on acute services and delivering care closer to home
  • Real-world examples of neighbourhood models that are improving access, flow and patient outcomes
  • Open, peer-to-peer discussion with senior leaders tackling the same delivery challenges
  • A trusted, closed-door environment designed for honest conversation and shared learning
  • A fully funded place, with no cost to attend for qualifying NHS and system leaders

Next steps...

1. Book time out in your diary
2. Register your place today

 

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Why attend? 

 

KEY THEMES FOR 2026

Join senior leaders shaping and delivering care closer to home, with a focus on how systems are operationalising neighbourhood models, reducing demand on acute services, and improving patient outcomes in practice.

Key focus areas include:

  • Redesigning urgent and community care pathways 
    Embedding urgent community response, 111 integration and admission avoidance models to safely deliver more care at home  
  • Building integrated neighbourhood teams that deliver 
    Aligning primary care, community services, mental health, social care and VCSE around shared outcomes and population need  
  • Managing long-term conditions and delivering prevention at scale 
    Using population health management and proactive care models to reduce demand and improve outcomes  
  • Shifting activity out of hospital and into the community 
    Transforming outpatient models, expanding community diagnostics and delivering care closer to home  
  • Enabling delivery through workforce, funding and system alignment 
    Addressing capacity constraints, financial frameworks and operational barriers to scaling neighbourhood care  

 

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What our delegates say...

" It was first class, stimulating, informative and full of lots of golden nuggets of useful information "
Chief Medical Officer
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB
" A good way to network, share learning and be inspired to want to make a difference "
Chief Medical Officer
South Yorkshire ICB

To find out more

Partnership opportunities: Ryan Bessent, Head of Sponsorship Sales  
Attendee Booking enquiries: Lauren Fraser, Client Relationship Manager