Rising with the Tide: The Coastal Navigators’ Network First Prospectus

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This full report from the Coastal Navigators Network (CNN)—a collaboration between NHS England and six coastal Integrated Care Boards—brings together eight months of learning, data, and innovation from the frontline of the nation’s coastal health challenges. From youth support in Felixstowe to suicide prevention in Thanet and housing-linked employment in Sussex, it showcases scalable interventions that tackle the root causes of poor health and economic exclusion.

A Fair Chance

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An innovative programme led by Dr. Jon Bashford and Joel Rennie, culminating in a take on employment solutions suggested and led by local people – a community-designed Job Fair held at a local community centre attended by place system partners in a show of putting talk into action, and directly tackling some of the challenges presented to us by the community.

Pharmacy in Place

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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.

Laying the Foundations for Change

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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

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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.