Tag: Public Health
In-depth study highlights significant role played by Big Local programme in preventing ill-health and alleviating demand pressures on healthcare services
11th December, 2023
Big Local • Community Power • Healthcare • Local Trust • Public Health
Building a community-powered NHS is urgently needed to overcome the current and future challenges facing the system. On the 75th anniversary of our much-loved health service, Laura Charlesworth delves into an innovative model of healthcare that puts community connection...
5th July, 2023
Commissioning and Procurement • Community Power • Health and social care • Public Health • The NHS
Produced in partnership with What Works Centre for Wellbeing, this report reviews the evidence related to community agency, control and power and their effects on community wellbeing.
22nd June, 2023
Community Cohesion • Community Power • Education and skills • Employment • Participation and co-production • Public Health • Wellbeing
In recent years we’ve seen a continued and increasing link between health and economic outcomes, brought into sharp focus by COVID-19. Imran Hashmi and Laura Charlesworth examine what this means for the UK labour market and for levelling up.
14th March, 2023
Covid-19 • Disabilities • Economy and business • Employment • Health and social care • Inequality • Mental health • Public Health
As the NHS faces ever-rising demand, its founding principles are under threat.
But there is a solution: a radical shift towards a healthcare system focused as much on preventing illness as treating it.
Working collaboratively with communities in the design...
12th July, 2022
Community Power • Health and social care • Public Health • Research Reports
Meet the UK's first Community Heath Workers, local people attached to a GP's surgery who check-in on the health of the neighbours. And who are already showing a different possible future for primary care.
25th April, 2022
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
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
Anna and Donna discuss why we need to move beyond debating funding to creating a people-centred system.
1st November, 2021
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
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
How community power can protect the future of the NHS.
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 radical new approach to health care in Fleetwood, Lancashire,...
13th May, 2021
Case study • Community Power • Community Voices • Health and social care • Podcast • Public Health
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
It feels like only a cliché will do as a title for this article. Maybe this tells you something about my writing ability – but, maybe, just as love-songs on the radio only make sense when you’re in love,...
24th March, 2020
Adam Lent argues we need to start thinking now about a post-pandemic plan focused on building stronger communities and a resilient economy. As is often the case with a crisis, Britain is channeling the Second World War. Talk of...
20th March, 2020
Covid-19 • Economy and business • Employment • Public Health
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 of the problem to individuals, families and the wider...
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 and social care. Integrating health and social care –...
10th June, 2019
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 treatments. Evidence supporting this principle comes today with the...
8th January, 2019
The NHS 10-year plan has been heralded by the Prime Minister as a “historic step to secure its future”. While elements of the plan are welcome – including greater investment in community care and mental health – it falls...
8th January, 2019
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 realm of many billions. Government cites arcane local government...
2nd October, 2018
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 event report published today as part of NLGN’s Dialogue...
5th June, 2018
Whilst recent events have placed emphasis on generational differences– particularly between millennials and older baby-boomers – intergenerational Homeshare schemes are addressing a problem that cuts across the perceived generational divide, and are gaining increased traction among Local Authorities. The...
23rd May, 2018
Prevention has become a bit of a buzzword. As public services struggle to meet demand alongside widespread funding cuts, increasingly people are recognising the need to focus on the factors that lead people to these services in the first...
22nd May, 2018
Eighteen is known as an exciting age. It is an age synonymous with unprecedented freedom, when the phrases ‘the world is your oyster’ and ‘what’s next is up to you’ are never far from earshot. While some eighteen-year olds...
17th May, 2018
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, the elderly and vulnerable hit the hardest. The basic...
3rd January, 2018
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 leisure centres, and the development of new housing –...
4th December, 2017
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 they could be £65m should be invested in Health...
28th November, 2017
Health and social care • Policy • Public Health • Research Reports • Wellbeing
An evidence review by Public Health England (PHE) hit the headlines last week, after the government agency found that a large chunk of middle aged adults are doing little to no exercise on a regular basis. According to PHE,...
6th September, 2017
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 and improve the health of the populations we serve....
28th July, 2017
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 – and the practical changes needed to make this happen....
6th April, 2017
Few would deny the need for change, or even what needs to happen to improve our care system. From reaction to prevention, services to systems and institutions, to people and place, the theory is there. But how do we...
14th February, 2017
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 virus (HCV) infected patients. However the same reasons that...
9th February, 2017
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 to be done for citizens over the long term...
2nd February, 2017
This final report moves the debate into practical territory by focussing on actions rather than structures, and the wider resources of places rather than the organisational boundaries of institutions.
17th March, 2016
Community Power • Devolution • Health and social care • Local government finance • Place building • Public Health • Wellbeing