Cabinet Office Social Exclusion Taskforce
Last updated: 30 November 2008
Connected Care is about integrating health, social care and housing services for local communities. To do this Turning Point Centre of Excellence is working with Bolton Primary Care Trust, Bolton Council, Bolton Community Homes and three local communities in Bolton. The aim of the project is to design and improve services that better meet the needs of local people.
Connected Care trains members of the local community, many of whom are service users, to become researchers. Once trained, these researchers go out into there communities and speak to a range of people, including those with the most complex needs, to find out how people want services to be improved. The information gathered by the community researchers will then be used to design services which are better equipped to meet the communities' real needs.
More information on the pilot can be found at: Turning Point's website [External website].
Abeda, one of the community researchers working in Bolton, has written a blog about her work for the pilot: Abeda's blog [External website]
