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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?

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?

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

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...

Time for a rethink on public loos

I recently spoke with a national broadsheet journalist about disinvestment in public toilets at a time when awareness and interest in...

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,...

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...

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”,...

The Health Impact Assessment: an Opportunity for Community Engagement

Clare Delmar, Listen to Locals Many of us see the pandemic as a reset opportunity for the development of local communities, with many...

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