A Little More Conversation Webinar with the Jo Cox Foundation

Events, Past Events

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.

Somerset Playbook: Final Report and Action Plan

Health & Care, Latest Reports

The Covid-19 pandemic is placing health and social care professionals across the world in unprecedented situations. In the UK, the NHS and local government have worked swiftly to reshape systems and processes to contain the infection and protect the most vulnerable within their communities. The pandemic now provides an opportunity to rethink not only how the health and social care workforce can effectively deliver services, but how to make these sectors better places for staff to work and particularly to encourage young people to consider careers within health and social care.

CIPFA Speaks! Podcast Featuring Breaking Barriers Innovations

Events, Past Events

In June this year, our Partnerships Director, Nic Werran and Research Director, Dr Jon Bashford spoke with CIPFA as part of their CIPFA Speaks! podcast series.

They talk about how we can best understand what ‘place’ means for the individual, not just the system, Dr Jon Bashford talks through our recent Playbook work in Portsmouth, and CIPFA share their ideas about why being able to measure prevention is so important to improving services.

Written Evidence for the Health Devolution Commission

Insights

In May this year, Breaking Barriers Innovations was invited to submit evidence to the Health Devolution Commission, drawn from the place-based programmes we have been working on in partnership with Health Education England (HEE). These programmes address the social determinants of health, including considering the education, training and workforce transformation implications at a local and national level.

Security of Supply: Lessons from the PPE Crisis

Insights

The word unprecedented has been widely used in relation to the Coronavirus crisis. But whilst it may have been unprecedented, it was not unpredicted. The government ran an exercise modelling its response to a pandemic in 2016, with a pandemic being the top risk on the government’s National Security Risk Assessment for some time; however key lessons have clearly not been learnt.