HCRG Care Group provide Adult Community Services in Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley and Swale areas. We provide a wide range of services including community nursing and occupational therapy among others. We began providing these services in September 2016.
A wide variety of NHS services sit within the term ‘community services’. In very simple terms it means all the services that aren’t delivered in a large hospital (secondary care) or classed as primary care (like GP practices and urgent care centres).
We provide similar services across the country, where we’ve invested significantly in bringing services together and improving the experience for the people who use our services. In North Kent we’re bringing services from two providers together, improving patients’ experiences of the services, investing in technology which will make the services more efficient and reducing the use of agency staffing.
If you’re interested in helping us develop the services you can join our Citizens Panel. Our innovative approach to involving the community doesn’t mean attending lots of meetings, and you can chose from three levels of engagement – informed, asked and involved.
The aim of our community services and teams is to work together with other organisations to provide you with the care you need close to, or in your home as a seamless experience, regardless of who in the NHS is actually looking after you.
Our staff have the skills and experience to make a real difference, so we empower them to challenge ‘the way things have always been done’. We’re also providing them with the latest tools, such as mobile working solutions, to give them more time with people using our services and make our service as safe as possible.
All of our community services are localised, but they have a common approach:
- Improving your experience – we’re always looking to improve your experience, whether that means working with GPs who refer into our services to improve this process so we see you quicker or providing unexpected magic touches.
- Listening to you – we ask everyone using our services to feedback on their experience so we can find out what we’re doing well and what we need to do better. We have a network of clinical experts who share examples of best practice and learn together.
- Care in the most appropriate place – we want to provide care in the best place for you, which is often in your own home.
- Safe and consistent – we have to meet rigorous Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards for our services and we run our own internal inspections and have robust governance and reporting systems to monitor how all of our services are doing, so you can be confident that your care, safety and privacy are our absolute priorities.
Our values
We have three values which help us stand out from the crowd, not just because there’s only three, but because they are unique to who we are. They’re our moral compass and define the way we Think, Care and Do our bit.
We don’t have a one size fits all solution because every service we provide is designed around the needs of the local population. However, we do have a common approach to delivering the very best service we can for the local community.