Coastal Navigators’ Network: Year Two Launch

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On October 16th, 2025, the Coastal Navigators’ Network (CNN) convened a national summit with partner locations, government, industry and third sector partners to tackle workforce challenges and health inequalities in coastal towns. The network is pioneering a “whole system” approach to early intervention, including focuses on challenges such as youth engagement, mental health, and career pathways to drive change at a place level. Working with NHSE and the APPG for Coastal Communities, the CNN leverages the power of its 18 partner locations to ensure coastal needs remain a national policy priority.

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.