The Health Creation Alliance works with a wide range of cross-sector partners and stakeholders in the delivery of a range of informative resources. If you would like to know more about our work in facilitating and collaborating, please contact us.
NEW BLOG
How to create health (and not just consume healthcare): Building Back Together following COVID-19. Merron Simpson, Chief Executive, The Health Creation Alliance
In this Blog, Merron argues that we need a paradigm shift across the system so that creating health sits alongside treating ill health and preventing illness. She then goes onto consider how health can be created; what it is that makes people and whole communities well and how can we create the conditions for this to happen? You can read it here.
NEW BLOG
My Vision for a Healthier Future: Communities and Contacts. Alex McCraw, Director, The Health Creation Alliance
In this Blog, Alex shares his views of how the health and care frontline needs to be redrawn to include the community. You can read it here.
The Health Creation Alliance published four reports between January and April 2021 as listed below. The 10 Key Messages derived from these are highly relevant to anyone involved in the shift to place-based working in health and social care including: National Government, Integrated Care Systems, Local Authorities, Acute Hospital Trusts, secondary care, Primary Care Networks, local statutory and non-statutory agencies, the voluntary and community sector. You can find them here.
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Learning from the community response to COVID-19; how the NHS can support communities to keep people well
This report considers what all community facing NHS stakeholders can learn from the community response to COVID-19. Full of practical guidance, adoption of the report recommendations will help build a better future where people are at the heart of keeping communities well. Download here.
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Primary Care Networks and place-based working: addressing health inequalities in a COVID-19 world. A partners perspective
This report provides fresh insights from those working to address health inequalities outside the NHS about how primary care, enabled by PCNs, might access the breadth of potential solutions that are possible when they work in partnership with their communities and local partners. Download report here.
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How can Primary Care Networks succeed in reducing health inequalities?
This report considers the outputs of a series of three multi-stakeholder events held during 2020 that addressed two key questions: 1) How can general practice and primary care work differently with communities and local partners to reduce health inequalities? 2) What can PCNs do to enable and create the conditions for practices to work differently with local partners to reduce health inequalities? Download report here.
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Digging deeper, going further:
creating health in communities. What works in community development?
This report draws out from communities and those undertaking community strengthening roles within statutory and voluntary sectors, precisely what it is that works in community development, while framing this so that NHS frontline workers, strategic leads and decision-makers fully understand the processes involved in community Health Creation. Download report here.
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How can Primary Care Networks succeed in reducing health inequalities?
Report from a multi-stakeholder event held in July 2019 that informed the 2020 events. Download here.
Practical steps Primary Care Networks might take to get their ambitions to address health inequalities off on the right track. Download here.
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Supporting the development of community pharmacy
This report considers the important role played by retail pharmacy on our high streets and in our supermarkets
Download here.
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The economics of housing and health
Three linked reports by New NHS Alliance and The Kings Fund. Commissioned by the National Housing Federation, their purpose is to demystify the health sector’s approach to evidence and to help the housing sector to make a coherent business case that the health sector will understand. Each report is intended for specific audiences and are branded accordingly.
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Closing the gap: housing and health inequalities
A briefing by New NHS Alliance for the Housing LIN.
Download here.
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Health creating practices: shining a light on housing initiatives
Report from a project to identify and enhance health creating practices in a range of housing led initiatives including hospital to home schemes, supporting people with mental health problems in the community, community-led walking football and over-55s club.
Download here
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The Times Supplement
A supplement to The Times within which New NHS Alliance has an opinion piece on the need for the Government to address health inequalities.
Download here.
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Housing, just what the doctor ordered
A guide for housing and housing support organisations to assist them through the process of developing new relationships with CCGs and various NHS providers.
Download here.
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Making time in General Practice
Freeing GP capacity by reducing bureaucracy and avoidable consultations, managing the interface with hospitals and exploring new ways of working.
Download here.
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Breaking Boundaries: Reinventing primacy care – a report for the Housing LIN
Provides insights into current debates and developments in health through the lens of general practice and primary care and explains the NHS Alliance’s vision for extended primary care and for developing social models of health.
Download here.