The Missing Middle do not attend health services — that is what makes them missing. Community Touchpoints maps the GP surgeries, pharmacies, libraries, faith communities and voluntary organisations that this population already visits, so outreach goes to them.
A screening programme that waits for people to come to it will, by definition, miss the people who do not come. The evidence from social prescribing is unambiguous: older adults at risk are reachable through the trusted, non-clinical places they already use. Mapping those assets within a priority zone turns an abstract "high-risk district" into a concrete list of places to set up a conversation.
Locations are drawn from the NHS API (for GP surgeries and pharmacies) and OpenStreetMap (for libraries, community centres, faith venues and VCSE organisations), filtered to the priority zones produced by the upstream layers. The output is an outreach-planning map, not a directory: its job is to help a team decide where presence will yield contact.
OpenStreetMap is uneven. Crowd-sourced data is excellent in some areas and sparse in others; an absent touchpoint may reflect missing map data rather than a genuine community gap.
Presence is not footfall. The map shows where assets are, not how many at-risk older adults actually use them. Local knowledge must complete the picture.
No quality signal. A mapped VCSE organisation may be thriving or dormant; the tool cannot distinguish them.