There is a particular gap in relation to how NHS Grampian connects on an ongoing and meaningful way with communities. Local experience suggests this is most effective when there is a targeted approach with communities, involving trusted third sector, local services and focussing on issues which really matter to people.
Community Appointment Day (CAD) approaches will make progress in this area.
We will use data to identify where this is likely to have most impact and builds in robust monitoring and evaluation. We will also create a network to help CAD events group organically across Grampian.
Learning from this experience, public health will facilitate different ways of working and relationship building (using a learning health system approach) between communities, third sector and other health services (such as GPs) to support the development of more resilient communities.
