Whole Family Support through General Practice
Inequalities in child health outcomes are widening in Scotland. A significant number of families experience poverty, isolation, poor mental health, neurodevelopmental conditions and significant stress. Many face barriers in accessing the resources and support they need from a complex, fragmented system of services with high thresholds and limited capacity. This results in unmet needs, crisis presentations, and continued negative impacts on wellbeing that risk being embedded across the lifecourse.
The Whole Family Support through General Practice (WFSGP) intervention is one of several projects supported by the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Fund (£500m between 2022-2026), but the only one based in primary care.
Family Wellbeing Workers (FWWs) provide holistic support to families experiencing, or at risk of, poverty, trauma and neurodevelopmental difficulties. There are 6 FWWs, each working in 2 Deep End GP practices (12 practices in total), between October 2024 and March 2027.
We aimed to evaluate the impact of the WFSGP pilot on primary care, participating families and wider stakeholders.
Whole Family Support through General Practice: Interim Evaluation Findings
For more information about this project contact:
Tackling inequality by expanding family support - Scottish Government
Staff
- David Blane
- Susan Browne
- Calum Lindsay
- Nicola McMeekin
- Jim Lewsey
- Emma McIntosh
- Ruth Dundas
- Helen Minnis
- Sharon Graham