Forming key collaboration and improving how services work together across health and social care is at the heart of everything the County Durham Care Partnership does.

The roots of these collaborations go back over 15 years with long-standing, effective relationships forged between adult and health services and the local NHS.

This has evolved into a powerful force for change in the region’s health and social care landscape, giving residents better, connected health services, closer to home.

This means joining up our systems, creating improved collaborations between our health and social care teams. bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders.

The Care Partnership has a shared vision and combined approach to addressing the complex challenges facing the care sector, by creating improved communication between health and social care teams.

This effective collaboration between health, social care and voluntary organisations across County Durham is bringing real, positive improvement to people's health, wellbeing and experience of care.

We're improving, integrating and redesigning services where it matters most, to better meet your needs and keep the people of County Durham happy, healthy and, as much as possible, at home.

Find out more about the County Durham Care Partnership in this short animation and our video below:

Joining up health and social care

Our provision of positive health and social care has always been joined up, but here in County Durham we make those links much more directly and that benefits everyone. We will only make our services better, as we continue to develop and improve going forward together.