Community Health and Care Day 2024
On Friday 01 November, NCH&C will be marking Community Health & Care Day: an annual celebration of community health and care, and an opportunity to raise awareness of what we do.
Community Health & Care Day is a registered awareness day launched by NCH&C in 2020 on the trust’s 10 birthday.
Although community health care makes up one fifth of the NHS workforce, it is often overlooked. Community care doesn’t have the visibility of a large hospital or ambulance siren, yet it is firmly at the heart of every health and care system. We believe that people are better looked after locally and this belief drives us to work hard to bring our expert care to patients in our community hospitals, within GP surgeries and in their own homes.
The theme for Community Health & Care Day 2024 is: Focused on the future - building better community care.
We’d love you to get involved with this year’s Community Health and Care Day. We have put together assets for you to get involved and celebrate your staff. A full campaign pack is available Campaign pack
NCH&C press office
Enquiries from the media are handled by the NCH&C press office. Our press office only deals with enquiries from the media. If you're not a media contact, there are other ways you can get in touch with NCH&C. Visit the Contact Us page to get in touch.
The NCH&C press office is open Monday to Friday, from 9am until 5pm. Please contact us in the following ways:
Tel: 01603 697366
Email: communications@nchc.nhs.uk
For urgent matters that occur outside of the usual opening hours, please contact the press office on 07747115764.
Please do not email us about urgent matters, as this inbox is not monitored outside of office hours.
Media FAQs
How do I request to take photographs or film footage of/at your premises or of your staff/services?
Please get in touch with the NCH&C communications team for permission to film or take photographs of our premises, staff and/or services before it takes place. If we can support the request, we will.
We’ve put together some guidelines which we ask the media to follow when taking photographs or filming at our trust:
- To help us with your request, please give us as much notice as possible.
- In order to protect our patients and staff, photography and filming is not allowed in some areas of the trust. Proper consent must be obtained before filming or photographing patients and/or staff.
- We don’t usually approve requests to film or photograph general shots of our premises and/or our staff or ‘pieces to camera’ that don’t directly relate to the work of NCH&C.
- We ask all media professionals on site to be accompanied by a member of our staff at all times.
- Please follow infection control procedures including using hand gel on entering and leaving clinical areas.
Anyone who is found filming or taking photographs at the hospital without permission will be asked to leave immediately, and footage and photographs may be confiscated.
How do I submit a Freedom of Information request or a Subject Access Request to NCH&C?
Please visit our dedicated section on accessing information we hold.