Neighbourhood collaboration to keep our communities well
A new vision is emerging for how health and care services will work together in Wandsworth.
The focus is on cross-sector collaborations around areas called Neighbourhoods, bringing services closer to the people who use them.
Neighbourhoods in Wandsworth
Four neighbourhoods are being formed.
Each area has distinct characteristics and needs:
Tooting – a large South Asian population with culturally specific health needs.
Battersea – estates where entrenched inequalities affect health and wellbeing.
Roehampton – geographic and social isolation, requiring tailored, community-embedded approaches.
Putney and Wandsworth Town – with its own mix of opportunities and challenges.
The main aims are to:
- Keep people well and out of hospital.
- Organise services around people and communities with similar needs.
- Provide personalisation and convenience (a priority in the NHS Ten Year Plan).
- Develop collaborative working not just within statutory health and social care organisations.
- Looking at things wider than health services such as housing, employment, education, local policing, and economic development.
How it will work
Integrated Neighbourhood Teams – an NHS model being rolled out nationally, bringing together NHS and council organisations.
Different ways of working – organisations using existing resources differently, focusing initially on adults most at risk of hospital admission and preventing ill health.
Partnerships with communities and the voluntary sector – ensuring that services remain focused on the people who use them, not just the organisations delivering them.
The details are still emerging and will continue to develop over the coming years. The Government has published national framework for Neighbourhoods and integrated teams in March 2026 and this provides further clarity for people to start working on this.
This page will be kept updated with the latest news and opportunities to get involved.
What WCA has done so far
- Introduced the Neighbourhoods and collaboration concept at 3 events
- Created a this webpage for updates and resources
- Started listing local VCSFE organisations and created a webpage listing directories of services
- Engagement and development support to:
Our Roehampton, Battersea Alliance and Balham and Tooting Community Association - Collaborating with and learning from regional and national infrastructure networks
- Facilitating information sharing about what we know so far from neighbourhood development and the VS perspective
- Worked with the ICB and local community groups to gather insights from local people about what is important to them and hosted an event about it.
We’d like your thoughts
Your questions and feedback are vital. We can make sure your comments will help shape how these neighbourhoods work in practice and ensure communities are at the centre.
There may not be any answers yet, but knowing your questions will also help us know if there is something we can find out about and provide an update.
Some prompts to consider:
– What are your questions?
– What can we as a voluntary sector start doing now to prepare?
– What do you think are advantages of the proposed neighbourhoods?
– What challenges do you see, and how could they be overcome?
– How could other levels of local area and neighbourhood level?
– What do you think are advantages of the proposed neighbourhoods?
– What challenges do you see, and how could they be overcome?
Other related information
Webpage listing directories of services
Introducing the new Wandsworth Provider Alliance – bringing together organisations to deliver joined-up, community-focused care.
10-Year Health Plan for the NHS
Health and care services are being organised at a neighbourhood level
Kings Fund Explainer – What is Neighbourhood Health
Events