Eighty per cent of people’s interactions with the NHS occur in their own homes, their GP practices, community pharmacies, dentists or local health centres, and the vast majority of social care services are delivered at home or in the community. So it seems obvious to me as a GP that effective partnership working at neighbourhood, […]
One of the key reasons I enjoy my role so much is because I get to help people tackle the problems that matter to them. Social prescribers like myself keep a very open mind about anyone who comes to see us and make sure to offer a full range of interventions which might help improve […]
Keeping as healthy as possible is a lifetime’s work. From everyday preventative behaviours like cleaning our teeth, to more complex tasks like managing long term health conditions, self care is the default health system. Yet from the formal health system’s perspective, self care largely goes unnoticed – it’s only when self care strategies haven’t been […]
As negotiators gather for the United Nations global climate change summit, COP26, an international group of leaders from some of the NHS’s largest suppliers have come together to pledge their support for a greener NHS, in recognition of the unequivocal threat to health presented by climate change. Left unabated, climate change will disrupt care, with […]
As I approach the end of my first year as NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Director of Health Inequalities, I reflect upon the many people I have connected with on this journey so far. My priority above all else during my first months in post was to listen and understand the perspectives of the people […]
In October 2020 the NHS became the world’s first national health system to commit to become net zero carbon, in response to the health threat posed by climate change. Since then, our team has been identifying and promoting opportunities for allied health professionals (AHPs) to contribute. AHPs are the third largest clinical workforce, with more […]
We are one year on from our ambitious and landmark report, Delivering a Net Zero NHS. As COP26 begins in Glasgow, it seems a pertinent time to reflect on our actions to reach net zero carbon emissions and how we can all work together to achieve the ambitious targets set out. Climate change presents a […]
