Service to Reduce Loneliness in Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Council is commissioning a new public health service jointly funded by Worcestershire CCG for the next three years as part of a new overarching strategy to reduce loneliness for adults living in Worcestershire. The Council has included reducing loneliness as a contributory factor to Health and Wellbeing Board priorities since 2015. This included delivery of a specific service to reduce loneliness using a process of matching volunteers to chronically lonely individuals by developing a personalised approach to improve their outcomes. There is existing evidence of the effectiveness of this current service provision for people aged over 50 years who are lonel…

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