Mid Essex Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) (1)

Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) are primarily about existing teams working together in a more coordinated and purposeful way, delivering a person-centred, all age approach to health and care.

Mid Essex is split into 6 Neighbourhood Teams ensuring that they are equitable in terms of complexity, relative demand for services and population sizes. The 6 Neighbourhood Teams are as follows: 

• Braintree North
• Braintree South
• Maldon North, Chelmsford East & Witham
• Chelmsford Outer
• Chelmsford Central
• Maldon Central, Dengie & South Woodham

Each of the 6 Neighbourhood Teams bring together local representatives from across the health and care system alongside voluntary organisations & local authorities to improve the health and wellbeing of residents in their communities. As a member of a local Neighbourhood Team, individuals will be joining a Community of Practice, where they can access a broad range of expertise and support combined with improved inter-organisational relationships.

To highlight the 2025 activities of Mid Essex Neighbourhoods:

• Facilitated 305 virtual Neighbourhood drop-ins to support informal networking, real time problem solving and knowledge sharing. Attended by over 260 different professionals to ask questions, present on cases or provide service updates

• Arranged for 18 bi-monthly F2F Neighbourhood Forums which have been attended by 526 professionals across Mid Essex to raise awareness of local provision and pathways across the topics of Housing & Homelessness, Dementia, Frailty & End of Life, Self -Neglect & Hoarding, Cost-of-Living, and Social Isolation & Loneliness. Forums have been scheduled until July 2026 and will be covering other important topics like Alcohol & Substance Misuse, Employment & Volunteering, Carers, and Physical Activity. 

• Over 100 additional health and care professionals onboarded to the Neighbourhood Handbook to add knowledge to the Community of Practice, which is currently at over 740 professionals.

If you are interested to find out more about the Neighbourhood approach in Mid Essex, please view the link below to complete the one page bio form to give consent to collate your details and add them to the Mid Essex Neighbourhoods distribution list. Once you have joined the distribution list, you will get access to our Ways of Working initiatives that include the handbook, weekly virtual drop-ins, and bi-monthly F2F forums. If you have any further questions about our approach, please don’t hesitate to contact midessex.int@essex.gov.uk.

Complete the one page bio form