Partnership Southwark is working with service users, carers and local communities to better join up services and support, tackle the causes of inequality and improve the health and wellbeing of Southwark residents.
People have told us that they want health, care and education services to be more joined-up, person centred and easy to access. We agree; services can often be too complex and fragmented, which leads to poorer health and wellbeing outcomes. By working together and with local communities, we can make sure that services are more consistent and responsive to the needs of service users, carers, and families, and we address the inequalities that exist within our communities; many of which have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
better join up services and support
tackle the causes of inequality
improve the health and wellbeing of Southwark residents.
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The New Mill Street Surgery in Bermondsey and Villa Street Medical Centre in Walworth have become the first two GP practices in Southwark to achieve accreditation under the Pride in Practice initiative, with an impressive gold level award. Pride in Practice is the LGBT Foundation’s accreditation scheme, working with primary care services to ensure LGBTQ+ […]
Safeguarding partners in Southwark are co-designing local reform of children’s social care in collaboration with frontline staff, safeguarding partners, children, young people and families to ensure their voices are at the heart of service design and the reforms are grounded in local context. The team are keen to collaborate and learn from ongoing feedback and are therefore adopting a phased ‘test and learn’ approach. As part of this approach, the first group of Integrated Family Help Pilot teams started taking […]
NHS South East London has been awarded Consultant Connect’s 2025 Urgent Care Award, recognising the outstanding success of our urgent community response telephone line that has been introduced across all six south east London boroughs. This year alone, the service has supported over 3,000 calls with an impressive 95% first time connection rate. This achievement reflects the impact of adopting Consultant Connect as our single point of access […]