Public Health: In The Right Place?

Supported and sponsored by Assura plc

About the Project

 

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.

As the pandemic unfolded, and the perils and consequences of “just in time” planning became evident, policies dictated from the national centre were often quickly supplanted by imaginative and more responsive local or even hyper-local initiatives.

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?

Above all, where is the patient in all of this? Is the current system sufficiently patient-centric or still too reliant on late-20th/ early 21st-century planning that flows from the traditional authority figures of the medical establishment and the state? What does a re-imagined future look like for healthy spaces and healthy communities that can take the pressure off services and improve the experience and health of patients, literally from cradle to grave?

The latest programme update – with interim recommendations – was published in December 2020.

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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For further information, please contact:

Robert Phillips, Founder, Jericho Chambers
Becky Holloway, Programme Director
Roxi Cebuc, Programme and Content Executive

Articles

All Jericho projects include an integral content programme: opinions and summary reports captured by Editorial Director Matthew Gwyther, via articles, podcasts and/ or film. You can access all of our publications via our website – and/ or enjoy recent, relevant articles and podcasts from members of the Jericho community below.

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

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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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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on 5th May 2021

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

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Public Health: In The Right Place?

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on 3rd December 2020

There is a German compound noun – schwellenangst – which means anxiety when crossing a threshold. Many of us develop...

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Public Health: Make Communities Great (Again)

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on 21st August 2020

The NHS, “Our NHS”, has never been short of purposeful slogans. The Patient First And Always or its close...

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Further Reading

A selection of interesting pieces from those involved in the project and beyond. Feel free to contribute.

NHS premises restrict patient care and efforts to clear COVID-19 healthcare backlog

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on 21st September 2021

This week Assura published the results of their recent survey of 1000+ healthcare professionals commissioned in collaboration by YouGov....

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Does nursing work deplete nurses’ well-being?

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on 26th November 2020

In this virtual debate hosted by the Journal of Research in Nursing, Buurtzorg founder Jos de Blok and colleagues...

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Lessons from Scandinavia during the first wave of Covid-19

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on 26th November 2020

“With new methods of resource collaboration, local authorities have worked quickly to relieve burdens from frontline healthcare workers, secure...

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Health//shift: Making the case and Making the change

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on 24th November 2020

“Mental Health & Well-Being is a foundational challenge of 21st-century economy and society”. This presentation was kindly given by...

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The Localism Commission

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on 17th November 2020

This update from Locality shares the findings from the National Commission on the Future of Localism. Established in 2017, in...

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#BeyondTheRules

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on 17th November 2020

This blog, by Dark Matter Laboratories, is part of a partnership exploring practical tools for a new type of...

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Leaderless Leadership

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on 17th November 2020

In this article, from the Forward Institute, Matthew Gwyther interviews Jos de Blok; CEO & Founder of Buurtzorg discussing,...

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We Were Built for This

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on 17th November 2020

This report from Locality discusses the ways in which community organisations have responded to the coronavirus crisis – and...

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Keep it Local

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on 17th November 2020

This report from Locality discusses their ‘Keep it Local’ campaign which aims to turn the tide on outsourcing at...

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Keep it Local: lessons from Bradford and Bristol

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on 15th November 2020

This ‘Keep it Local’ report from Locality, shares lessons from the Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Bristol City Councils...

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Living Through Lockdown

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on 12th November 2020

This report from Healthwatch Haringey, run by Public Voice CIC, summarises issues and concerns experienced by adult social care...

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Borough Partnership Co-Design Charter

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on 9th November 2020

The following document, shared by Sharon Grant OBE of Public Voice CIC, aims to clarify what is meant by...

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Joining the Dots: Caring for Carers

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on 2nd November 2020

In this recent article for Joining the Dots, David Grayson examines the caring relationship and proposes a “new social contract...

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In ‘It’ Together

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on 23rd October 2020

In this recent article David Grayson, discusses the need for a ‘stable Social Care system’, ‘decent and fair level...

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