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

Health and social care • Public Health

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

Governance • Health and social care • Public Health

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

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

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

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 […]

24th March, 2020

Covid-19 • Economy and business • Public Health

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, […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

8th January, 2019

Public Health • Public Services

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

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

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, […]

23rd May, 2018

Community Power • Public Health

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 […]

22nd May, 2018

Public Health • Public Services

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’ […]

17th May, 2018

Mental health • Public Health

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

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 […]

6th September, 2017

Cities • Infrastructure • Public Health

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

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

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 […]

14th February, 2017

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

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