Communities & cooperatives
Care that reaches where clinicians are scarce.
Local access points with remote diagnostic support and a defined referral pathway.
What this programme covers
Each of these is confirmed in writing before a programme starts.
- The access-point model
- What a community access point is, who runs it and what happens there.
- Local health worker role
- What the local worker is trained and permitted to do, and what they are not.
- Remote diagnostic capability
- Which examinations and tests can genuinely be supported remotely.
- Power and connectivity
- What the site needs to work, and what happens when either fails.
- Clinical scope
- Maternal, child and primary-care services covered.
- Referral pathway
- Where a patient goes when the access point is not enough, and who arranges it.
- Programme economics
- What it costs to establish and run, and who pays for what.
Discuss a community programme
Tell us about your organisation and what you need to deliver. Nothing is agreed until scope, pricing and responsibilities are set out in writing.