Our Role in Healthcare & Wellness

Our Mission to Support the Wider Healthcare System

The health of our local community is a shared responsibility, and at The Keepers, we recognise our essential function in supporting the wider healthcare system. Our mission is to help our local community stay well, active, and connected, by playing a crucial role in relieving pressure on frontline healthcare services and improving overall access to wellness.

Aligning with National Health Strategy

We actively support the two core strategic shifts outlined in the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England:

• From Sickness to Prevention: The national goal is to shift focus from treatment to preventing ill health and reducing the gap in healthy life expectancy.

• We work to directly achieve this by:

  • Fostering a proactive community wellness and inclusion culture, ensuring wellbeing is a foundation of
    The Keepers to prevent our community members from slipping through the cracks.

  • Running programmes (like providing healthy meals through our community freezer, hosting NHS clinics and supporting wellness groups) that give people the access to make informed health choices.
    

• From Hospital to Community: The Keepers embodies the neighbourhood health service model, complementing NHS efforts by ensuring immediate, on-the-ground assistance and early action.

  The Keepers acts as a crucial local hub by:

  • Providing essential wellness and support services directly in the local area, by providing informal wellness checks.

  • Serving as a key part of the care decentralisation, delivering support as locally as it can be.

  • Helping to reduce demand on clinical services by addressing the social and wellbeing issues that often lead to health crises.

Why we are an Essential Function: Improving Access & Outcomes

The Keepers operates as a core component of the community's health infrastructure, establishing an essential access point for local residents that perfectly complements the formal NHS by:

• Acting as a dedicated, informal, social and wellbeing resource, thereby reducing the influx of non-clinical, prevention-related inquiries into GP practices and other clinical services.

• Serving as a trusted community partner that strengthens the overall capability of the local health system to deliver care effectively.

Our health and well-being services address the community's needs holistically and serve as the local resource hub for wellness. Use the menu below to find the services we offer: