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Community Connector Magazine
Why Community Connector?
Community Connector provides a multi-channel, locally informed solution:
- Physical print - access for the digitally excluded
- Free community magazine
- A–Z of local and regional health & care services
- Voluntary sector and grassroots support listings
- Community events and wellbeing activities
- Crisis and cost-of-living information
- Designed specifically for residents least likely to access digital information
About
Community Connector Magazine is a free 'physical' magazine designed to support patients and communities by tackling digital exclusion and providing clear, accessible information about local health and wellbeing services and community events.
The magazine includes an A–Z guide covering NHS services, community support, charitable organisations, and healthcare providers across your locality and the surrounding region. Our aim is to help patients better understand what services are available, how to access them, and where to find further support.
Key Info
- Supports commissioning goals - helping to meet a number of targets to reduce digital exclusion and improve health in-equalities
- Free of charge - there is no cost to community venues, GP practices or patients
- Practical and patient focused - designed to be clear, concise, and easy to use
- Locally relevant - covering services in your local area and nearby communities
- For waiting rooms - supplied in a convenient display format for people to read while waiting for appointments
Commissioning Benefits
- Supports Core20PLUS5 delivery
- Reduces avoidable demand
- Strengthens community access and navigation pathways
- Improves health literacy
- Trusted offline access route for communities
- Community-level demand management
- Low-cost prevention
- Blended analogue-digital communication model
- Ability to use for research and community engagement
Patient & Community Benefits
- Promotes early intervention and prevention
- Creates exposure and promotion of local events
- Supports the uptake of alternative and holistic therapies to improve wellbeing
- Improves exposure to voluntary roles within the community
- Enables people to make new friends
- Reduces loneliness and social isolation
Health and Social Care Benefits
- Promotes and builds on Social Prescribing approach
- Reduces the demand on Primary Care/GPs
- Reduces waiting lists
- Promotes prevention and early intervention
- Tackles digital exclusion
Coverage & Reach
- On average 179,000 people will see the publication
- An average of 3,000 Community Organisations will benefit from the publications
- That's over 100,000 Voluntary Sector, Community and Faith Organisation workers
- Plus on average over 250 GPs and Social Prescribers
- And 52 Dental Surgeries and Community Hubs