Tag: Health and social care

Structural reform can only go so far. Claire Kennedy looks at why effective population health management means accepting that we don’t know exactly what that means – and working together to create better outcomes.

11th April, 2022

Health and social care • Leadership • Public Health • Public Services

5 lessons from 15 years of supporting better outcomes by developing effective place-based partnerships.

25th March, 2022

Health and social care • Participation and co-production • Place building • Public Services • Stronger Things

The government’s new health white paper sets out steps towards what ‘joined-up care’ will really mean, finally recognising the centrality of place. Claire Kennedy finds much to celebrate, as well as big questions to be answered.

16th February, 2022

Governance • Health and social care • Public Health

Take a moment to reflect and learn, recharge and connect, and reboot the way you work at the community power event of the year.

28th January, 2022

Events • Health and social care • Stronger Things

Meet others who are working on the same stuff as you in these subject-specific deep-dive sessions.

5th January, 2022

Health and social care • Inequality

The Relationship Project's David Robinson shares a framework for making relationships essential to public services, not a 'nice to have'.

8th December, 2021

Health and social care • Leadership • Public Services • Strategy and leadership

More short-term fixes will only lead to further crisis. It's time for leadership to change the narrative.

18th November, 2021

Health and social care • Politics

Anna and Donna discuss why we need to move beyond debating funding to creating a people-centred system.

1st November, 2021

Health and social care • Public Health • Social Care

In the UK, access to healthcare may be egalitarian in principle, but outcomes are becoming less and less equal. Spurred on by the experience of Covid, a growing movement is building solutions - not within hospitals or GP surgeries,...

8th July, 2021

Community Power • Health and social care • Inequality • Long read

Rising demand, poor outcomes, public expectations and the need to bring humanity to healthcare are why giving more power to communities is the change the NHS needs argues Luca Tiratelli.

1st July, 2021

Community Power • Health and social care

How can we make sure integrated care systems work for local people? Alex Fox argues we need to avoid just integrating bureaucracies, but take the opportunity to put patients' needs first.

23rd June, 2021

Community Power • Health and social care • Public Services • Social Care

New Local board member Raj Jain on moving beyond an "ill-health service".

8th June, 2021

Community Power • Health and social care • Public Health • Strategy and leadership

The NHS as we know it is increasingly unsustainable. These graphs show why - and how we need to change the way the NHS works if we want to protect its future.

20th May, 2021

Health and social care • Public Health • Public Services

Demand on the NHS is rising. To protect the future, the health service needs more than internal reform - it needs to reach outwards.

13th May, 2021

Community Power • Health and social care • Public Health • Public Services

Why do we keep sending people back to the conditions that have made them ill in the first place? This question is at the core of GP Dr Mark Spencer’s […]

13th May, 2021

Case study • Community Power • Community Voices • Health and social care • Podcast • Public Health

The pandemic has highlighted the gap between local communities and central government. Communities rose to the challenge and came together, central government scrambled to react and lost trust. Jane Dudman explores the year we saw how centralisation affects us...

29th April, 2021

Community Power • Health and social care • Welfare

When Children England asked young people to lead their own inquiry into how to create a welfare state that’s fair for children, they focused on local community-led solutions. Chloe Darlington looks at their ideas, from community health hubs to...

17th February, 2021

Childrens' Services • Health and social care • Welfare

The pandemic has shown the powerful ways communities, civil society and the public sector can come together in response to local challenges. But this kind of cooperative local problem solving – what we call community power – has much...

16th February, 2021

Community Power • Health and social care • Research Reports • Third sector and civil society

As the vaccine rollout widens, how can local services reach eligible people who remain hesitant to make an appointment? In this how-to guide, the experts from the Behavioural Insights Team look at how to nudge more people to get...

10th February, 2021

Behavioural Insights • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Health and social care • Local government

The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a light on how the UK functions: how decisions are made and by whom; the interlocking - or isolated - roles of health care, local government and the private sector - and the 'heroic'...

1st February, 2021

Central government • Covid-19 • Governance • Health and social care • Long read • Strategy and leadership

Health care is so much more about what happens in hospitals, writes the former Chief Executive of the English NHS. Instead, it can thrive with the help of 'health creators' - ordinary people creating healthier communities. And it's time...

13th November, 2020

Community Power • Health and social care • Public Health

The crises facing care homes meant social care became part of the news during Covid-19. But how can we look beyond it to building a better system for future generations?

10th November, 2020

Community Power • Health and social care • Public Services • Social Care

In this podcast, we discuss why the DWP report is ill-equipped to support people out of long-term unemployment. And we look at at the community approach that could replace it.

27th October, 2020

Disabilities • DWP • Employment • Health and social care • Mental health • Podcast

Over 2 million people are out of work due to health conditions and disabilities. But each year, only 4% move into employment. This Isn't Working, argues that support for this group should lie with local areas, and not the...

27th October, 2020

Disabilities • DWP • Employment • Health and social care • Mental health • Research Reports

NLGN is proud to welcome Sir Chris Ham to our Board.

7th July, 2020

Community Power • Health and social care • Interview • New Local Board

Women do the vast majority of unpaid care, and are often at the heart of community work. But can community empowerment help create a more egalitarian approach to paid and […]

9th March, 2020

Community Power • Employment • Health and social care • Women

No one can doubt the sincerity of Dame Sally Davies’s parting shot as Chief Medical Officer. Her report on child obesity crackles with frustration and fear at the horrendous cost […]

10th October, 2019

Health and social care • Public Health • Public Sector Voices • Public Services

The challenges of working with partners, complex structures, imperfect systems etc are everywhere in local government. In this blog we talk about an example we’ve been working on in health […]

10th June, 2019

Health and social care • Public Health • Public Services

“I just found it really difficult to get out and meet people” Mary Evans says. “I was in my first month at university, in a new city surrounded by other […]

29th March, 2019

Health and social care • Mental health • Public Services

Exploring how councils are working to tackle loneliness.

14th March, 2019

Community Power • Health and social care • Innovation In-depth • Members • Mental health • Wellbeing

20th January, 2019

Community Power • Health and social care • Local government • Members • Partnerships

Financial constraints combined with escalating demand for services continues to be one of the biggest challenges that public bodies face. In order for the public sector to face the challenges […]

17th January, 2019

Health and social care • Public Services

This article first appeared on the Local Government Chronicle website on 7th January 2019. It is generally accepted that doctors should avoid diagnosing their own illnesses and prescribing their own […]

8th January, 2019

Community Power • Health and social care • Public Health

It’s become a familiar scene. Minister makes “major” announcement of new funding for social care in the realm of many millions. Sector responds that what is needed is in the […]

2nd October, 2018

Health and social care • Public Health

11,000 young people leave care every year, including foster and residential placements, and start their transition to adulthood. For many, this is a difficult journey. Not only do young people […]

20th June, 2018

Childrens' Services • Health and social care • Social Care

A quarter of millennials think it’s normal for older people to be unhappy or depressed, and two thirds don’t have a friendship with an age gap of 30 years or […]

18th June, 2018

Health and social care • Social Care

Factors as varied as employment, transport, housing, and green space all affect people’s health. And over the last four years, councils have undertaken a variety of innovative work with local […]

5th June, 2018

Health and social care • Housing • Planning • Strategy and leadership

On 23rd March 2018, NLGN, supported by The Ramblers, convened a roundtable on public health, held in Salford and attended by partners from across Greater Manchester. This blog launches the […]

5th June, 2018

Health and social care • Public Health

How should we regard the NHS as it celebrates its 70th year? A much-loved elderly aunt who offers nothing but care and support to an increasingly demanding family despite being […]

29th March, 2018

Health and social care • Public Services

The “NHS at breaking point” media furore has become a fixture on our winter calendar as regular as Christmas and New Year. Hospitals at full capacity, patients experiencing substandard care, […]

3rd January, 2018

Health and social care • Public Health

It’s hard to find a part of local government that doesn’t affect our health in some way. From support for children and parents, to the maintenance of local parks and […]

4th December, 2017

Health and social care • Public Health

Government must acknowledge health as an economic asset that boosts workforce productivity Over 85% of senior public health officers surveyed1 found that economic development departments are not as engaged as […]

28th November, 2017

Health and social care • Policy • Public Health • Research Reports • Wellbeing

In the UK, we’ve been talking for some time now about place-based ‘systems of care’. These are born out of collaboration with other NHS organisations and services to address challenges […]

28th July, 2017

Health and social care • Public Health

This blog is for Carers Week, an annual campaign to raise awareness of carers, the challenges they face, and the contribution they make to society. There is no doubt social […]

16th June, 2017

Health and social care • Public Services

Theresa May is not the only potential casualty of this election. The social care issue has taken a pretty severe political beating as well. After May promised not to “duck […]

9th June, 2017

Health and social care • Political Systems • Politics • Social Care

The Prime Minister is right in elevating social care to one of this election’s defining issues – reflecting the very need for radical change that many of us have long […]

5th June, 2017

Health and social care

The issues crying out for solutions in this election remain woefully unaddressed. For years the UK has struggled with a rapidly ageing population, an unbalanced economy and a mess of […]

16th May, 2017

Health and social care • Politics • Public Services

NLGN’s recent Place-based Health conference brought together many experts in local and national healthcare to discuss the need to move away from reactive health services, towards holistic, place-based systems – […]

6th April, 2017

Health and social care • Place building • Public Health

If ever there was an area of healthcare where place-based care could have a major impact on local public health gains it is the identification and treatment of hepatitis C […]

9th February, 2017

Health and social care • Public Health

England’s health and social care crisis is not only financial – it is a challenge to politics and society too. It represents a crisis of confidence about doing what needs […]

2nd February, 2017

Health and social care • Public Health