About our Health service
Community Links drives impactful projects aimed at building healthier communities and tackling health inequalities by improving accessibility to vital healthcare services. This includes promoting early cancer diagnosis through increased participation in NHS Cancer screening programs, raising awareness, and fostering engagement across diverse health fields, such as diabetes, to ensure better health outcomes for all.
Community Links delivers targeted health programmes aimed at improving cancer screening uptake and reducing health inequalities across North East London. Work is delivered through several key projects including: the PCN Cancer Facilitator Programme and Cancer Screening Outreach. These initiatives focus on personalised, culturally sensitive engagement with underserved communities.
Community Links, together with our partners at Aston Mansfield and Mind, have seconded sixteen colleagues to work within the East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) as Community Connectors. Working within multi-disciplinary teams based in primary care networks (PCNs) across Newham, our Community Connectors provide wraparound, person-centred support to individuals living with serious mental illness (SMI), including conditions such as anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia.
Find out more about our Health work with our publications here.
Our programme on the news
HSJ – ‘Telephone reminder programmes facilitate cancer screening‘
Public Health England – ‘Tackling screening inequalities in BAME communities‘
‘Report of the Independent Review of Adult Screening Programmes in England‘