Community resilience can have important practical benefits for communities, patients, the NHS, and other community service providers.
Patients and communities:
- better emergency outcomes and experience
- less avoidable hospital admissions
- better information and access to services
- safer healthier communities due to preventive actions
- self-development opportunities through volunteering, education and involvement
Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS Boards
Community resilience contributes towards finding solutions to the major day-to-day challenges in delivering quality patient care:
- in remote areas
- in areas of high demand
- on growing population health problems