Understanding community-led approaches to COVID-19 – research

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New NHS Alliance is delivering a project supported by The Health Foundation that seeks to answer: How can the NHS work with communities that are taking action to increase prevention and health creation? Learnings from COVID-19.

For this project they are looking for examples in which local residents and community groups have come together and addressed specific COVID-19 needs within their community. Anyone can complete the questionnaire. You don´t have to have been involved in the activity, you may have just seen people doing great things.

They are particularly looking for local projects which have supported:

• People living with diabetes
• BAME communities
• People with learning disabilities
• People with mental health challenges
• People living with cancer
• Gypsy and traveller communities
• The deaf, blind or deaf-blind communities

The questionnaire
Completing our short questionnaire should take no more than 12 minutes and anything you tell us will remain confidential unless you agree otherwise. We may contact you if we have any questions.
There are a number of ways to complete the questionnaire:
· Digitally through SurveyMonkey here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6YGF3HW
· By completing the attached and e mailing to neil@realitasconsulting.co.uk

From the completed questionnaires, our intention is to select six/seven case studies for in-depth analysis. If your contribution is selected, you will hear from us before Wednesday 28 October at 17:00.
Deadline for completion: Wednesday 7 October at 17:00.


More specifically we aim to:

• Uncover and capture stories from those working actively in communities that show what happens behind the scenes, as well as the benefit and impact of community-led approaches on health and wellbeing, during COVID-19
• Understand what sparks the passion that leads to communities self-organising towards common goals, drawing on community strengths and taking a lead on issues that matter to them
• Explain, make sense of and increase the profile of communities coming together to address their needs while it is happening and visible through the COVID-19 response
• Identify the implications for NHS systems and practice towards enabling, and sustaining community-led health creation beyond COVID-19

Examples:

• will have contributed to people´s health and wellbeing
• may (or may not have) supported people in a way that the NHS would/could have
• can support NHS learning about working with local people and communities
• can have supported 100s of people, a small community of say five people, or a specific group such as the traveller community

Please help if you know of a local project that could be included as a case study