Neighbourhood Health Survey Posted or Updated on 2 Feb 2026

The index will run as part of the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme launched in July 2025 to support the development of neighbourhood health services across communities.  

The Index will measure the extent to which local health and care partners are providing joined-up, personalised, and proactive care and will enable teams to track and measure progress on health and care outcomes over time.  

The survey will focus on areas such as understanding an individuals current health and wellbeing, their confidence and ability to manage their own health, the extent to which services are effectively co-ordinated and joined up and how an individual’s health could be improved.

Survey respondents will consent to their survey data being linked to their health record and other data sets enabling patient experience to be triangulated with service utilisation and outcome data. This linked data can help inform future planning and service design across ICBs and within neighborhoods as well as supporting national benchmarking and identification of unwarranted variation.

Delivering the Neighbourhood Health Survey

The Neighbourhood Health Survey is currently conducted by Ipsos UK who act as a data processor on behalf of NHS England .

NHS England and Ipsos have obtained section 251 approval (of the NHS Act 2006 and Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (CAG reference: 25/CAG/0008)) for the survey. This provides a legal basis for patient information to be used to carry out the survey. 

However, potential survey participants will have the opportunity to opt-out of the survey prior to their personal details being passed to Ipsos UK. A dissent poster has been created to provide details for potential survey participants as to how they can opt-out.