Swale’s Playbook for Place

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. 

Clacton

Clacton Place

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.

Pharmacy in Place

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.

Learning from Lockdown Roundtable: Lessons for Healthy Housing and New Settlements

The Learning from Lockdown Roundtable comes at a pivotal time for housing and the future health and wellbeing of populations as we start to come out of the current pandemic and seek to learn the lessons from a prolonged period of lockdown, in particular, the impact of social isolation and loneliness on health and wellbeing and what this means for future housing and the creation and design of new housing programmes.

Laying the Foundations for Change

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.

A Place for Prevention

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.

A Place for Prevention: Place-Based Approaches for Investing in Prevention

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. 

Connecting People and Place: An action plan for addressing social isolation and loneliness in north Portsmouth

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.