Six projects across England were named on 16 September 2026 as neighbourhood health "trailblazers" under an investment partnership involving the Department of Health and Social Care, Macmillan Cancer Support, Social Finance and West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The programme is backed by £1.5 million from the Office for the Impact Economy, the department said, and is intended to develop and test models bringing together NHS services, councils, community organisations and local people.

The sites are Bristol NHS Foundation Trust; Lewisham Health and Care Partnership and Healthier Greenwich Partnership; Navigo Health and Social Care CIC for North East Lincolnshire; RM Partners and the North Central London NHS Cancer Alliance across 19 London boroughs; North Nottinghamshire Partnership, led by Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Proposals cover end-of-life care, frailty, cancer prehabilitation and rehabilitation, and proactive co-ordination for people with complex needs.

Macmillan said it had committed to invest £250 million in neighbourhood health across the UK over the next 3 to 5 years and intended to act as a cornerstone investor in the trailblazer sites. Ministers Diana Johnson and Stephanie Peacock presented the programme as part of the government's 10 Year Health Plan and its stated aim of shifting care closer to home.