Never Waste a Crisis
Danielle Wood2020-05-22T10:03:16+01:00Tim Anfilogoff, Head of Community Resilience for Herts Valleys CCG gives his reflections on Social Prescribing and Covid-19 in West Hertfordshire. In 2014, Herts Valleys CCG, in partnership with Herts County Council, commissioned four voluntary organisations to provide six community navigators. This service was built on HertsHelp which is a county-wide single point of access for expert triage to 12,000 entries on the community database. The navigators soon showed the difference they could make ‘getting alongside’ people who needed - but would never ring – HertsHelp. The service was expanded into the countywide Hospital and Community Navigator Service [...]