{"id":164293,"date":"2025-09-27T18:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164293\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:17:18","slug":"nhs-neighbourhood-trial-in-kent-brings-healthcare-to-the-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164293\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS neighbourhood trial in Kent brings healthcare to the doorstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NHS said that once the patient is known to the team, they can then reach out to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Harndon said Carol was &#8220;flagged on our system as needing extra support. When I go in to assess a patient, I look at everything. How are they coping? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The first time I met them, Tony said to me, &#8216;We have lost all our confidence when we go out. We just want to be able to go for lunch again without having to worry.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I took my assessment back to the multi-disciplinary team, which includes services from the GP surgery, community and social care, and we quickly identified that Carol&#8217;s medication needed to be reviewed, which could help reduce her risk of falling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neighbourhood Health teams are backed by \u00a310m of government funding and draw together a range of professions, including community nurses, hospital doctors, social care workers, pharmacists, dentists, optometrists, paramedics, social prescribers, local government organisations and the voluntary sector. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pioneer sites will initially focus on supporting people with long-term conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, angina, high blood pressure, MS, or epilepsy &#8211; in areas with the highest deprivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHS said that once the patient is known to the team, they can then reach out to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-164293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}