Dr Jon Bashford, Research Programme Director, and Rahim Daya, Senior Programme Manager at Breaking Barriers Innovations have conducted a strategic mapping for a programme of work aimed at reducing the health and social harms associated with unemployment and being socially isolated and lonely in Lambeth.
George Evans-Jones, Programme Manager, and Anushka Naidu, Programme Executive at Breaking Barriers Innovations have conducted a Playbook for Place on behalf of Swale Borough Council and their partners. This concludes with a focus on equitable access to skills, competencies & opportunities for residents.
Jon Bashford, Director of Research at Breaking Barriers Innovations, discusses the Clacton Place programme and how this will be working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to as part of the Core20Plus5 programme.
As the NHS moves into a new era with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) due to become statutory bodies from April 2022, the time is right to consider how Community Pharmacies can support ICSs to deliver the objectives of the NHS Long Term Plan and help the NHS to restore and recover services as we move out of the current pandemic.
This report sets out the findings from a scoping exercise in support of the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) commitment to developing its departmental strategy to address social isolation and loneliness. In particular, MHCLG were seeking to develop a toolkit for local authority planning and infrastructure staff that will assist them to make Prosocial places a reality.
Few would argue with the age-old axiom that prevention is better than cure, and yet it still remains the case that investment on prevention is significantly lower than that for treating illness. This report is the culmination of months of user engagement across two locations in the Kent and Medway footprint. It takes into account what prevention means from the top-down and the bottom-up. It provides the blueprint for how an entire county wide approach to prevention can be implemented through using this research as a case study.
Our understanding of trauma and the profound and lasting ways in which it can affect people’s lives is increasing, and there is growing awareness of the requirement to make services more responsive to the specific needs that traumatic experiences can create…
On the 8th October 2020, CIPFA in partnership with Breaking Barriers Innovations (BBI) hosted a virtual seminar to discuss how system leads can help reset the UK’s approach to investing in prevention. In particular, by reflecting on the events of the last year and sharing best practice, we explored what practical steps local authorities, NHS, civil society and system providers, and Government can take in moving this discussion forward.
Breaking Barriers Innovations (BBI) and Health Education England (HEE) are leading a series of pilot projects on place and the social determinants of health across England. The pilots seek to provide a facilitated and comprehensive approach to the place-based development and delivery of health and social care services that can address the social determinants of health and wellbeing.
On the 31st July 2020, over 150 stakeholders from across the country joined Breaking Barriers Innovations, the Jo Cox Foundation, and their Connection Coalition for a virtual webinar to launch the Breaking Barriers Portsmouth Action Plan.
This webinar was borne out of the shared belief that social isolation and loneliness needs to be prioritised, not just by voluntary sector organisations, to become a recognised priority for any organisation concerned with the economic and health impacts caused by social isolation.