Practising Connection – Public Health and The Surgery of the Future 4.0

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The COVID-19 pandemic has rightly placed Public Health and healthcare provision front-and-centre of future policy thinking and strategic planning. As we navigate the crisis, new models of community organisation and trust are also emerging – some born out of necessity, others from a new sense of community identity and vision.

In partnership with Assura, we are asking: What can we learn from this? What does it tell us about “healthcare devolution” and how we trust the actions and instincts of our local community and immediate peers? Will the COVID crisis lead to systemic and design change, as the nation embarks upon recovery and renewal? How, where and within what frameworks can we treat and care more effectively?

In spring 2021, we were proud to share the latest publication, Practising Connection – Public Health and The Surgery of the Future 4.0. Practising Connection explores radical alternatives to primary healthcare and argues that future design is as much about systems as it is about buildings and places. The Surgery of the Future 4.0 will embrace the very best of medical practice, reformed NHS institutions and, critically, community collective action. It builds on both the learnings and achievements of the COVID pandemic, to place the patient front-and-centre of everything.

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Introduction: Practising Connection – Public Health and The Surgery of the Future 4.0

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The global medical events of the last 18 months should make any confident predictors of the future put away...

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Foreword: Practising Connection – Public Health and The Surgery of the Future 4.0

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Danny Kruger’s New Social Covenant Unit wants a full-scale rethink of the welfare state. In this piece, adapted from...

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The view from Frome

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More than a doctor’s surgery, this compassionate Health Hub in Somerset is the poster child for modern ecosystem thinking...

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Full system health: illuminating the way forward

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Connected tech will provide many of the answers in tomorrow’s new look surgery When it comes to predicting the...

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We’ve been here before: The Peckham Experiment

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Peckham is more than the home to Del Boy and Rodney. Its trail-blazing historic community health hub offered a...

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Forgotten Communities

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COVID has shown that the time is ripe for a collaborative commitment for Social and Primary Care ‘Collaborative commitments’...

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An architect’s blueprint for the NHS

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Why design is central to achieving spaces that can fit form to function no matter how demand shifts while...

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A sense of peace and inspiration in Horatio’s garden

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More Human Habitat Horatio’s Garden is a national charity improving the lives of people affected by spinal injury through...

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The modernisation of the NHS ready for a post-COVID future

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Although Maggie and Horatio’s ideas have so far been largely associated with hospitals, many lessons are there for primary...

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Answers from Almelo

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Buurtzorg’s self-managed, non-hierarchical nursing teams show the possibilities of serving rather than controlling primary care A collision between the...

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Power to the networks: the peer-to-peer future of health and care

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Nyby’s peer-to-peer network platform transforms how primary health care connections can be made without relying on inefficient centralised service...

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Afterword: Practising Connection – Public Health and The Surgery of the Future 4.0

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Try, try and try again David Ring is an orthopaedic surgeon who gave up his Chair at Harvard Medical...

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