Reimagining the South West’s health and care system
Our goal is to address the unique challenges of the rural and coastal context. By reimagining the health and care system for our demography, distance, and sparseness.
We’re taking a collaborative approach. Working in partnership at a Peninsula level to form a collective research and innovation strategy for health and care in the South West of England. And developing system transformation plans that integrate the latest evidence, innovation, and improvements.
A unique and urgent health and care challenge
The Peninsula’s demography, distance and sparseness presents distinct and significant shared challenges.
It stretches from the Isles of Scilly to Somerset, with over 600 miles of coastline. Around 2.2 million people live here. Across isolated rural farming areas, market towns, coastal communities, and urban centres.
This range of environments creates significant challenges for our health and care systems:
- Delivering health and care services
- Improving population health and tackling high levels of disease
- Access to and quality of care
- Workforce
Add to this, slow economic growth, and we’re seeing an impact on quality of life, health equity and prosperity.
Recent Projects
Health Technologies Adoption and Acceleration Fund (HTAAF)
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Learn moreAntenatal Preventative Pelvic floor Exercises And Localisation programme (APPEAL)
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Multiple Long-Term Conditions and Frailty
Improving the lives of people living who live with long term, multiple conditions and frailty
Mental Health
Promoting and enabling quality care for Mental Health and preventing ill health
Urgent Care
Immediate, compassionate and cost-effective urgent care
Cancer
Prevention, detection and treatment
Maternity, Neonatal
Addressing inequities in maternal and neonatal care
