Sept 2026 - Live More in Kensal Rise Initiatives

The Live More in Kensal Rise Initiative (LMKRI) will connect existing activities and improve collaboration for health, care and community life. It will develop four areas: inter-organisational leadership, building trusted relationships; multidisciplinary teamwork around carers’ homes, including continuity of care and action learning; collective reflection and coordinated action, through regular locality meetings; and fostering for adults with dementia (the Live More Programme). Participants emphasised that community is an evolving network of relationships, requiring opportunities for interaction, shared learning and difficult conversations. Health and social care organisations must also work across boundaries, building trust through continuity of care and shared projects. Unpaid, ‘informal’ Carers often do not identify themselves as carers, yet make huge, often-unnoticed contributions to society. They need greater recognition and support. The challenge is to balance family empowerment, community involvement and safeguarding. Multidisciplinary teamwork should happen in people’s homes, as well as other places. Proposals included a mobile app for carers, a digital platform for communities of practice, and health and care education and research in local communities. Citizens, schools, parents and faith communities all have roles. A relational language for social care is needed to challenge fragmented thinking. Journalists could communicate progress and inform neighbourhood development. Evaluation must demonstrate human and financial value, addressing the priorities of communities, commissioners and politicians, including community engagement, relationship-based practice and hospital savings. Fourth-generation evaluation, involving stakeholders in reflecting on ongoing evidence, could support learning and change. LMKRI must gain political understanding and show how to use local resources well by developing community-oriented integrated practice.