Beating heart failure together

Get involved

We would love to hear from anyone who lives or works in Ipswich and East Suffolk who has experience of heart failure, or who cares for someone with heart failure.

We know the most important voices are those of local people and communities. We want to work alongside residents, patients, carers and community groups to shape how neighbourhood health develops locally.

Opportunities to get involved will include:


  • Sharing your experiences of care and support
  • Taking part in workshops and discussion groups
  • Helping to design and test new ways of working
  • Joining community insight activities
  • Providing feedback on proposed changes


Your insights will help ensure services are designed around what matters most to our communities.


If you would like to be involved, we will contact you with more information and invite you to take part. We are looking to bring people together to work as a group to help shape and improve heart failure information and education for the local community and for health and care staff.


Together, we can design neighbourhood health support that works better for our communities.


What is Neighbourhood Health and the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme?

Neighbourhood health is about making care and support more accessible within our communities — helping people stay well, manage conditions earlier, and receive joined-up support closer to where they live. The National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP) has been designed to test and develop new ways of delivering neighbourhood health. Ipswich and East Suffolk Alliance has been selected as one of 43 sites across the country to take part.


What is the project focusing on locally?

In Ipswich and East Suffolk, the programme is focusing on people who have heart failure or who are at risk of developing it. By working differently across organisations and with our communities, we want to improve how people are supported to stay well and manage their health.


What the programme aims to achieve

Through the NNHIP programme we aim to:


  • Improve early identification and support for people at risk of heart failure
  • Provide more coordinated, person-centred care closer to home
  • Reduce avoidable hospital admissions
  • Support people to live well and independently for longer
  • Support people with making plans towards the end of their life
  • Strengthen how local services work together around neighbourhoods


Who is involved

This work is being delivered through a strong partnership across the Ipswich and East Suffolk Alliance, including:


  • Primary care teams
  • Secondary care services
  • Local councils
  • Voluntary sector
  • Pharmacy
  • Mental health services
  • Adult health and social care
  • Hospice services
  • Suffolk Family Carers
  • Frontline health and care staff

Follow the links below if you would like to find out more about the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme, the NHS National Neighbourhood Health Guidelines or the NHS 10 Year Plan:

Get involved

We would love to hear from anyone who lives or works in Ipswich and East Suffolk who has experience of heart failure, or who cares for someone with heart failure.

We know the most important voices are those of local people and communities. We want to work alongside residents, patients, carers and community groups to shape how neighbourhood health develops locally.

Opportunities to get involved will include:


  • Sharing your experiences of care and support
  • Taking part in workshops and discussion groups
  • Helping to design and test new ways of working
  • Joining community insight activities
  • Providing feedback on proposed changes


Your insights will help ensure services are designed around what matters most to our communities.


If you would like to be involved, we will contact you with more information and invite you to take part. We are looking to bring people together to work as a group to help shape and improve heart failure information and education for the local community and for health and care staff.


Together, we can design neighbourhood health support that works better for our communities.


What is Neighbourhood Health and the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme?

Neighbourhood health is about making care and support more accessible within our communities — helping people stay well, manage conditions earlier, and receive joined-up support closer to where they live. The National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP) has been designed to test and develop new ways of delivering neighbourhood health. Ipswich and East Suffolk Alliance has been selected as one of 43 sites across the country to take part.


What is the project focusing on locally?

In Ipswich and East Suffolk, the programme is focusing on people who have heart failure or who are at risk of developing it. By working differently across organisations and with our communities, we want to improve how people are supported to stay well and manage their health.


What the programme aims to achieve

Through the NNHIP programme we aim to:


  • Improve early identification and support for people at risk of heart failure
  • Provide more coordinated, person-centred care closer to home
  • Reduce avoidable hospital admissions
  • Support people to live well and independently for longer
  • Support people with making plans towards the end of their life
  • Strengthen how local services work together around neighbourhoods


Who is involved

This work is being delivered through a strong partnership across the Ipswich and East Suffolk Alliance, including:


  • Primary care teams
  • Secondary care services
  • Local councils
  • Voluntary sector
  • Pharmacy
  • Mental health services
  • Adult health and social care
  • Hospice services
  • Suffolk Family Carers
  • Frontline health and care staff

Follow the links below if you would like to find out more about the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme, the NHS National Neighbourhood Health Guidelines or the NHS 10 Year Plan:

Page last updated: 26 Mar 2026, 09:19 AM