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.
Health Creating Neighbourhood Health; what does good look like?
February 2026
Blueprint 1.0 sets a clear standard for Health Creating Neighbourhood Health. It reclaims the language of ‘health’ across three purposes – Health Creation, prevention and healthcare. It calls for Neighbourhood Health to be driven by community insight and designed with people who have the least opportunity to be well, and for a shift in resources to maximise community and partner contributions. It sets out what good looks like for: people and communities; workforces and leadership; governance and accountability and commissioning.
Download Blueprint 1.0 for health creating neighourhood health
Tenants at the table: A National Tenant Advocacy Structure to influence and provide accountability in social housing decision-making
April 2025
Based on in-depth discussions with over 100 social housing tenants from a range of backgrounds and communities, as well as leading policy leaders and influencers, this report responds to long-established calls for an unmediated national voice for tenants. It confirms the appetite amongst tenants and proposes well-grounded, feasible ways in which it could be delivered.
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Sustainability Leading to System Change Report March 2025
This report investigates how systems are finding ways to continue the Core20PLUS Connectors Programme and reshape their systems’ approach to health equity, people and communities, health creation and prevention. It contains eight insights into the challenges and how they are being overcome that will help any Integrated Care system (ICS) on its ‘reform journey’.
Connecting for Funding and Sustainability Resource Kit March 2025
While intended to support funding and sustainability of the Core20PLUS Connectors Programme, the Resource Kit can support anyone involved in securing funding for community-based or -led projects and programmes. It focusses on the importance of emotion-based content and messages that should complement logic-based communication when building a compelling case for funding and sustainability.
The Resource Kit brings together original content, links to relevant on-line resources and educational guidance and materials, within a single resource.
Download: Connecting for Funding and Sustainability Resource Kit final
MEMBER PAPER March 2025
Re-imagining Economics for a Healthier Society. Authored by Professor Andy Knox MBE, Associate Medical Director of Population Health for NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB this paper is the third in a series of papers from our members that build on the contents of our Manifesto – Health Creation for now and future generations.
MEMBER PAPER October 2024
Ownership of social care provision matters. Authored by Peter Hay, Non-Executive Director of THCA, Chair of Turning Point, and Director of Peter Hay Consulting, this paper is the second in a series of papers from our members that build on the key themes included within our Manifesto – Health Creation for now and future generations. – Health Creation for now and future generations.
Download the paper here.
HSJ COMMENT June 2024
People must look through the ´community lens´ rather than the service lens, which Health Creation demands you do, so that they can start to see a common cause of many preventable illnesses and their risk factors – an imbalance or abuse of power. This contribution to Health Service Journal (HSJ) is in comment form and was published on 20 June.
Download the comment here.
MEMBER PAPER June 2024
A rights-based approach to health. Authored by David Aynsley, Founder and Trustee of Tr14ers Community Dance Charity and a THCA Associate, this paper is the first in a series of papers from our members that build on the key themes included within our Manifesto – Health Creation for now and future generations.
Download the paper here.
Literature Review – Personalised care, social prescribing and community strengthening. This two part literature review considers the evidence supporting personalised care, community strengthening and social prescribing, all of which are constituant parts of Health Creation. This was in response to the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) evaluation which suggested that leaders sometimes need help convincing colleagues to invest in new ways of working despite the policy imperative and their desire to lead change.
HSJ COMMENT October 2023
The NHS needs to share power with the communities it serves. This contribution to Health Service Journal (HSJ) is in comment form and was published on 29 October 2023.
Download the comment here.
Creating spaces for community and patient wellbeing. This report digs deep. It provides a wealth of information about what matters in relation to community spaces to 10 different communities that typically experience poor health outcomes. It draws attention to the many commonalities in eight ‘big themes’. It was undertaken by THCA for NHS Property Services and includes 12 recommendations useful for anyone wishing to create spaces that support communities to create health. .
Download the report here.
How can NHS anchors support communities to create health – Learning from the community response to COVID-19, provides real-world insight into how NHS anchor institutions are working in partnership communities, capitalising on both their strengths to address health inequalities.
Download the report here.
Download the report here.
Health Creation: Addressing national health inequalities priorities by taking a health creating approach. This report is based on a webinar which was sponsored by NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) and hosted by THCA. This showcased some of the great health creating work happening in systems across the country to support the reduction of healthcare inequalities and health inequalities. Download.
The report was supported by a media release with some great quotes from Dr Bola Owolabi, Director Health Inequalities, NHSEI and Merron Simpson CE, THCA.
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.
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.
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.
And here is the presentation from the launch of the publication on 3 March 2021 [download]
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.
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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
NTA download