St Helens Place has approximately 185,982 residents with 50.9% of these male and 49.1% female. St Helens has approximately 61.7% people of working age with 20.7% people aged 65+. Healthy life expectancy in both genders is below the national average. Around 43% of the population live in the top 20% most deprived areas in England. St Helens has 7 local authority localities, 4 primary care networks and is served by one main provider of acute/community services, and one main provider for mental health/therapy services.

Since becoming a NNHIP pioneer site in September 2025 St Helens has developed its existing Care Communities programme into a One Neighbourhood approach. St Helens neighbourhoods are defined as communities built on a sense of belonging, social ties over proximity and flexible boundaries adapting to the needs of residents.

St Helens neighbourhood approach to date includes agreed senior leadership/governance framework, implementation of task force and steering groups to drive change, several engagement workshops to build relationships and data driven decision making to agree prototyping cohorts based on population need. St Helens are already planning initial multi agency meetings and development of local integrated neighbourhood teams including planned interventions such as community action days and group consultations.

Photo taken at Place NNHIP Launch Event Dec 2025