Horley Health and Wellbeing Network

Bringing together local residents and community partners who collectively wish to improve the health and wellbeing of local people, and the delivery of local NHS services.

Our aim is to:

• Meet with other local people and organisations who are creating health in their area
• Celebrate all that is going on within the local community
• Take stock of how relationships between local people, local organisations and the NHS are changing and developing
• Reflect on local experience of NHS services
• Shape a collective vision to build upon.

Together, we have worked to identify and collectively action areas to improve health and wellbeing in the local area, including:

Starting Well

• Activities for young people
• Community services and schools​
• Family planning​
• Mental health and social isolation
• NHS dentistry
• Young carers support

Living Well

• Access to general practice​
• Asylum seekers assistance
• Autism support
• Booking medical appointments
• Communication on activities
• Community facilities in Westvale Park
• Community transport​
• Cookery and healthy eating
• Delivering prescriptions
• Digital inclusion and support to use the NHS app.
• Digital telephony switchover
• Family support information
• Health impact of flooding and sewage
• Learning disabilities, autism, and schools
• LGBTQ+​ support
• Mental health in adults
• Physical activity including swimming​.
• Social prescribing
• Surrey Fire and Rescue community assistance​

Ageing Well

• Support for people with long term conditions
• Ageing well digital support
• Dementia navigation

Neighbourhood development in the Horley Neighbourhood Health and Wellbeing Network.

Over the past year, our network has worked to identify and collectively action many areas to improve health and wellbeing in the local area.

East Surrey Health and Wellbeing Network Feedback Horley 2024 plain text version [docx] 234KB

Below is a selection of the Horley Neighbourhood highlights.

1. Community feedback: Lack of activities for young people in Horley.
   Latest update: Several new youth groups have started including Sheds Youth Sessions and Wednesday Night Project.
2. Community feedback: Suggestion on having engagement events to promote healthy eating and diversity of cultures represented in Horley.
   Latest update: Two cookery events were organised with the support of partners. These events focused on low-cost healthy eating and peer-to-peer teaching of dishes from different cultures. 50 people attended the first event and 107 people attended the second event, both events were positively received.
3. Community feedback: Concerns raised about the health impacts of sewage treatment and overflows of tanks at Westvale Park.
   Latest update: Discussions held with residents, Thames Water, River Mole River Watch (RMRW), Resident's Association and local councillors. This led to enhanced Thames Water action to limit the impact of sewage spill, and they have put together plans to increase the capacity of the storm overflow system.
4. Community feedback: Barriers to accessing urgent and routine NHS dentistry, particularly for children.
   Latest update: NHS Surrey Heartlands met with headteachers in Horley to discuss the issue. Plans are underway to support access to NHS dentistry, and wider campaigns to improve oral health in children. 
5. Community feedback: The local Fire Brigade shared safety advice at the meeting and ask for more involvement in events.
   Latest update: The Fire Brigade visited Men in Sheds at Horley Health Hub. This has resulted in appointments being booked to visit homes to make sure smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors are fitted for people who didn't have them.