Briefing 006/26: Neighbourhood health framework

The Department of Health and Social Care published their Neighbourhood Health Framework on 17th March 2026. It sets out a new national direction for organising health and care services around ’natural’ neighbourhoods and delivering more care closer to home.

Alongside this document, NHS England published a letter to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) regarding next steps on neighbourhood health and a document providing guidance on the application of population health delivery models as part of implementing neighbourhood health.

This Community Pharmacy England briefing provides a summary of the key points in the documents of most relevance to LPC members, community pharmacy owners and their teams.

Briefing – Neighbourhood health framework

For more information on this topic please email services.team@cpe.org.uk