Health 2/2

First, do no harm

Anyone involved in medicine and the provision of healthcare will recognise this phrase and its origins in Hippocrates – it embodies the...

Homes, Places and the Peckham Experiment

Jul 16, 20233 min read

Homes, Places and the Peckham Experiment

Last year I interviewed Lord Nigel Crisp about housing and its impact on our individual and collective health, and how the scale of this...

Jun 23, 20234 min read

The coalitions are coming

Just when I thought it wasn’t possible, not one but two coalitions of Built Environment organisations have announced their arrival in the...

Jun 9, 20234 min read

When dots don’t connect

Earlier this year when Secretary of State for Levelling up Michael Gove suggested that a rethought approach to planning education could...

Health services must be prioritised in communities undergoing regeneration

Apr 6, 20234 min read

Health services must be prioritised in communities undergoing regeneration

Some recent events in Kent illustrate a disconnect between planning for new housing development and providing essential health services...

Health Street: Building Health Creation into High Street Renewal

Feb 27, 20234 min read

Health Street: Building Health Creation into High Street Renewal

As our understanding of the connections between place and health continues to grow in the post-Covid era, we’re beginning to see...

Placeshaping, Communities, Health and Wellbeing: an interview with Professor Kevin Fenton CBE

Jan 22, 20236 min read

Placeshaping, Communities, Health and Wellbeing: an interview with Professor Kevin Fenton CBE

There is perhaps no one more informed about the integration of place, health & wellbeing in London than Professor Kevin Fenton CBE, ...

Jan 10, 20233 min read

Housing

What does a School of Place look like?

At the end of the year, Secretary of State for Housing and Levelling Up Michael Gove revealed that his mission would be enhanced with a...

How listening to locals generates good health: a visit to the Bromley-by-Bow Centre

Nov 22, 20224 min read

How listening to locals generates good health: a visit to the Bromley-by-Bow Centre

I visited the Bromley-by-Bow Centre (BBBC) last week for a presentation, tour and chat with its insights director Dan Hopewell. Quite by...

Oct 27, 20223 min read

Homes, Places and Health – an interview with Lord Nigel Crisp

Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords where he co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global...

…and we have the data to prove it. Now what?

Oct 7, 20224 min read

…and we have the data to prove it. Now what?

One of the positive contributions of the Covid era to both global and local health has been the vast collection of data on who, how, when...

Can Integrated Care Systems bring health & communities back into the planning process?

Jun 13, 20223 min read

Can Integrated Care Systems bring health & communities back into the planning process?

As of July 1st, the NHS will be managed through a series of Integrated Care Systems. The NHS describes these as “partnerships of...

May 20, 20222 min read

Health Equity

Local Communities & Health Inequalities

Nicola Bacon, co-founded Social Life in 2012 to develop research and community projects exploring how people are affected by changes in...

Feb 18, 20223 min read

Developers for Healthy Places: a collective of health-promoting property organisations

We are experiencing an unprecedented intersection of planning, development and public health in our government policy, local communities,...

Oct 20, 20213 min read

New approaches to promoting health in local communities

The growth in health inequalities across London and the country has focused many of us on how to improve accessibility to health services...

Jul 6, 20214 min read

It’s time to put health at the heart of planning decisions

We’re now all too familiar with the catchy phrases and the repeated taglines presented to us by the government each day – “Levelling up”,...

May 17, 20213 min read