Project 3: Primary care
Using networks and joint learning to improve health.
Why is this important?
Every day, GPs and other professionals in primary care teams deal first-hand with inequalities in health.
Often people's ill health relates to things like their housing situation, impacts of work, poverty or social isolation.
This means GPs and their teams are uniquely placed to help address these challenges, particularly in areas of the county where people might be struggling financially or emotionally.
What has been achieved so far?
GP practices already work together in networks to deliver joint support to a particular neighbourhood or community in Oxfordshire.
These Primary Care Networks run specific projects that help address local health inequalities. They then use social prescribing and other referral routes to signpost residents to the support available for their needs.
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