Your Voice Matters Maldon NHS Services Meeting

Published: 04 November 2026

Community Engagement Event – NHS Online

Come along to hear about the new NHS Online service, its ambitions for improving access to care, and share your views.

Event details
Date: Wednesday 25 November 2026
Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Venue: Maldon Town Hall, Market Hill, Maldon, Essex CM9 4RL

Purpose
This event supports Peer & Community Leaders to identify and develop local community engagement opportunities as part of m-powered’s national NHS Online engagement programme.

What are they trying to achieve?
M-powered People and Communities is leading in-person community engagement for NHS Online. This is a new service launching from 2027 that will give people in England the option to access some planned specialist care digitally through the NHS App.

We want to speak to a wide range of communities to better understand:

• What people think online hospital care is and what it might look like
• What could get in the way of using it and what would need to change
• What would make it genuinely worth using and worth recommending

The first clinical areas expected to be supported are:

• Glaucoma, cataracts and medical retina conditions
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Iron deficiency anaemia
• Prostate conditions
• Menopause and menstrual issues

NHS Online will be optional. People who prefer or need face-to-face care will continue to access existing services as usual.

NHS Online is designed to:

• Offer more choice and convenience
• Provide faster access to specialist care
• Reduce waiting times by using specialist teams across England
• Free up face-to-face appointments for those who need them most
• Support more efficient use of NHS resources