The Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector is a fundamental part of our Integrated Care System. The VCSE offer to Healthier Together focuses on addressing wider health factors, secondary prevention in communities, reaching excluded groups and providing insight and voices from those communities.

In our collaboration with the VCSE sector across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire, we are building on existing collaborations, such as hospital discharge and social prescribing. We also address challenges, including different approaches to scale, governance, evidence/data and culture.

Our approach includes investment and support for the Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance, co-designing the new VCSE Brokerage Framework and VCSE vision and actions.