Supported and sponsored by Assura plc
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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