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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