Beating heart failure together

Get involved

We would love to hear from anyone who lives or works in Ipswich and East Suffolk who has experience of heart failure, who cares for someone with heart failure, and our local workforce.

We know the most important voices are those of local people and communities, so are working with residents, patients, carers, community groups to shape how neighbourhood health develops locally.

Opportunities to get involved will include:

Sharing your experiences of care and support
Taking part in workshops and discussion groups
Helping to design and test new ways of working
Joining community insight activities
Providing feedback on proposed changes

Your insights will help ensure services are designed around what matters most to our communities. We will support you to take part, offer expenses and recognition of your time e.g. thank you shopping voucher.

If you would like to be involved, please sign up using the form below or this link, or be in touch (details below).

We will contact you with more information and invite you to take part. We are looking to bring people together to work as a group to help shape and improve heart failure information and education for the local community and for health and care staff.

Together, we can design neighbourhood health support that works better for our communities.

What is Neighbourhood Health and the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme?

Neighbourhood health is about making care and support more accessible within our communities — helping people stay well, manage conditions earlier, and receive joined-up support closer to where they live. The National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP) has been designed to test and develop new ways of delivering neighbourhood health. Ipswich and East Suffolk Alliance has been selected as one of 43 sites across the country to take part.

What is the project focusing on locally?

In Ipswich and East Suffolk, the programme is focusing on people who have heart failure or who are at risk of developing it. By working differently across organisations and with our communities, we want to improve how people are supported to stay well and manage their health.

What the programme aims to achieve

Through the NNHIP programme we aim to:

Improve early identification and support for people at risk of heart failure
Provide more coordinated, person-centred care closer to home
Reduce avoidable hospital admissions
Support people to live well and independently for longer
Support people with making plans towards the end of their life
Strengthen how local services work together around neighbourhoods

Who is involved

This work is being delivered through a strong partnership across the Ipswich and East Suffolk Alliance, including:

Primary care teams
Secondary care services
Local councils
Voluntary sector
Pharmacy
Mental health services
Adult health and social care
Hospice services
Suffolk Family Carers
Frontline health and care staff

Follow the links below if you would like to find out more about the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme, the NHS National Neighbourhood Health Guidelines or the NHS 10 Year Plan:

Please use the link below to register your interest and tell us a bit about you. Alternately be in touch by phone 01473 770261.

If you have any questions, please be in touch with us by email: samantha.clarke@snee.nhs.uk or phone: 01473 770261.

We look forward to working together to beat heart failure!