National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP)
On 15th July 2025, the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP) was launched which aims to develop a ‘test and learn approach’ to support wider delivery of neighbourhood health. The NNHIP is a large-scale change programme, being described by NHS England as a social movement for change not a delivery model. It will gather and disseminate learning from 43 places (the original plan was for one from each Integrated Care System (ICS)) to create exemplar sites that bring together all system partners, people and communities to develop Neighbourhood Health, being overseen by a DHSC and NHS England task force.
The programme is being built on a series of three sets of guiding principles covering ‘place’ level; ‘neighbourhood’ level and ‘multiple long-term conditions and rising risk’ (which is the cohort of people that NHS England have requested initial sites focus on). Following a design workshop at the start of August, the guiding principles are being further refined. NHS England have been clear that the NNHIP ‘is not about creating guidelines, a steering group, a performance management framework or targets’.
Applications to be included in the first phase of the NNHIP were to be submitted by Places with co-sponsorship from CEOs from the ICB, local authority and key providers by 8th August 2025.
Shropshire was selected as a Wave 1 site for the NNHIP. Community Pharmacy Shropshire is represented as part of the core membership for the NNHIP locally. The focus for the NNHIP for Shropshire is frailty and there are a number of projects that are being reviewed with the potential to scale up across Shropshire. It is anticipated that each neighbourhood within Shropshire will have a different focus for their neighbourhood projects to support and align with their population.
