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Tag Archives: Access to Green Spaces
Primer on Social Prescribing (LGA / King’s Fund / CRD / BMJ Open / NHS England)
Summary An investigation into the concept of social prescribing, with case studies. “Social prescribing – sometimes called community referrals – is a means of enabling primary care services to refer patients with social, emotional or practical needs to a range … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Green Spaces, Ageing Population, Alliance Manchester Business School: University of Manchester, Allotment and Gardening Projects, Blackburn with Darwen, BMC Health Services Research, BMJ Open, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Bristol Health and Wellbeing Board, Bromley by Bow Centre, Care of Older People, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (York), Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: University of York, Chronic Care, Chronic Conditions, Chronic Diseases, Community Referrals, Community Volunteering, Community Wellbeing Board, Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care, Costwold District Council, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), Debt, Doncaster, Dr Michael Dixon: College of Medicine, Dr Richard Kimberlee: University of the West of England, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Forest of Dean District Council, Garden Areas, Gardening, Gardens and Health, Halton St Helens and Knowsley, Health Volunteering, Healthy London Partnership, Institute of Population Health Sciences: University of Liverpool, Izzi Seccombe: Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, LGA's Community Wellbeing Board, LGA: Local Government Association, Life Rooms Model, Liverpool, Local Authorities, Local Government Association: LGA, Loneliness and Isolation, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Luton Council, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Museums, NHS Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care, NHS Rotherham CCG, NHSNetworks, NIHR ARC NWC (Liverpool), NIHR CLAHRC NWC, NIHR CLAHRC NWC (Liverpool), Non-Judgemental Support, Parks and Gardens, Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Personalised Care and Support Planning, Personalised Care and Support Planning (PCSP), Poor Housing, Primary Care Network Teams, Primary Care Networks (PCNs), Rotherham, Rotherham Social Prescribing Pilot, Rotherham Social Prescribing Service, School of Healthcare: University of Leeds, SDM: Shared Decision Making, Social Prescriber Link Workers, Social Prescribing, Social Prescribing Case Studies: Blackburn with Darwen, Social Prescribing Case Studies: Costwold District Council, Social Prescribing Case Studies: Doncaster, Social Prescribing Case Studies: East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Social Prescribing Case Studies: Forest of Dean District Council, Social Prescribing Case Studies: Halton St Helens and Knowsley, Social Prescribing Case Studies: Luton Council, Social Prescribing Case Studies: Rotherham, Social Prescribing Case Studies: Tower Hamlets, Social Prescribing Link Workers' Resource Pack (NHS England), Social Prescribing Network, Social Prescribing: Case Studies, Social Prescribing: Removing Barriers With Other Sectors (Social Care or Community Care or Mental Health Providers), Social Prescribing: UK, Stress, Supported Self-Management Programme, Tower Hamlets, University of Leeds, University of Liverpool, University of Manchester, University of the West of England, University of Westminster / College of Medicine, University of York, University of York: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, Voluntary Action Rotherham’s Social Prescribing Pilot, Voluntary Sector, Volunteering, Wellcome Trust Seed Awards, What Matters to Me Approaches, York Trials Unit: University of York
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More on the Avoidable Costs of Lifestyle Risk Factors (BBC News / PHE / Lancet)
Summary Public Health England (PHE) has estimated that health problems associated with unhealthy lifestyle practices – such as poor diet, obesity, physical inactivity, drinking and smoking – cost the NHS in England approximately £11 billion per year. A new approach … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 2016 Local Health Profiles, Access to Green Spaces, Access to Rural Green Spaces, Access to Urban Green Spaces, Adult Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Allotment and Gardening Projects, Anti-Obesogenic Environments, Basic Cookery Skills (Healthy Eating), BBC Health News, Behavioural Risk Factors, Chris Askew: Chief Executive of Diabetes UK, Chronic Bronchitis, Commissioning for Maximum Value, Commissioning for Outcomes, Commissioning for Value, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Friendly Outdoor and Public Environments, Dementia Garden (Fleetwood), Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Deprived Communities, Determinants of Health, Diabetes Epidemic, Diabetes Prevention, Diabetes Prevention Services, Dr Mark Spencer: Mount View Practice (Healthier Fleetwood Project), Dr Rebecca Wagstaff: PHE, Exercise, Exercise Regimens, Fast Food, Fast Food Consumption, Fast Food Outlets, Fast-Food-Free Zones, Fast-Food-Free Zones (Around Schools), Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Fleetwood, Fleetwood Town Football Club, Garden Areas, Gardening, Gardens and Health, Green Spaces, Health and Housing, Health Benefits of Green Space, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Healthier Fleetwood (Case Study), Healthier Fleetwood Project, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Eating, Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Living, Healthy New Towns, Healthy New Towns Programme, Healthy Weight, Improving Access to Green Spaces, Improving Local Public Health, Integrated Prevention Approaches, Lancashire, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Intervention Programmes, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Lifestyle Weight Management, Local Action on Reducing Health Inequalities, Local Green Spaces, Local Health and Wellbeing, Local Health: Public Health England, Local Public Health, Local Public Health Services, Maintaining Healthy Weight and Preventing Excess Weight Gain Among Children and Adults, Manifesto for a Healthy and Health-Creating Society (Lancet), Obesity, Obesity - Burden of Ill-Health Links, Obesity and Diabetes, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Obesity is the New Smoking, Obesity Risk Factor, Obesogenic Environments, Office of National Statistics (ONS), Parks and Gardens, PHE: Public Health England, Physical Activity, Physical Activity and the Environment, Physical Activity Prescriptions, Physical Exercise, Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes, Preventing and Managing Demand, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Agenda Linking Dementia and Other Non-Communicable Diseases, Prevention Approaches, Professor Jonathan Valabhji: National Clinical Director for Obesity and Diabetes at NHS England, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Redesigning Local Healthcare Systems, Reducing Demand (Treatment and Recovery), Reducing Downstream Spending (Prevention Public Health and Self-Care), Reducing Expenditure, Reducing Health Inequalities, Risk Factors, Smoking-Related Bronchitis, Social Determinants of Health (SDH), Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Epidemiology, Social Prescribing, Social Wellbeing, Societal Determinants of Health, Socio-Economic Deprivation, Tithebarn (Lancashire), Type 2 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention, Wasted Resources, Weight Management, Wellbeing, Willow Garden Project, Willow Garden Project (Fleetwood), Y-Active Project, York Health Economics Consortium
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NHS Involvement in Health Housing / Healthy New Towns (BBC News / NHS England / King’s Fund)
Summary Ten new housing developments in England will be designed with an eye to encouraging healthy and independent living, obesity reduction and dementia friendly signage. Full Text Link Reference NHS to help create ‘healthy new towns’. London: BBC Health News, … Continue reading →
Posted in Assistive Technology, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Enhancing the Healing Environment, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Affordable Housing, Access to Green Space, Access to Green Spaces, Access to Rural Green Spaces, Access to Urban Green Spaces, Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Anti-Obesogenic Environments, Barking Riverside, Barton Park: Oxford, BBC Health News, Behavioural Risk Factors, Bicester: Oxfordshire, Building Research Establishment, Cambridgeshire, Community Empowerment, Cranbrook: Devon, Darlington, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Friendly Indoor Environments, Dementia Friendly Outdoor and Public Environments, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Dementia-Friendly Family Parks, Dementia-Friendly Homes, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Organisations, Dementia-Friendly Rural Parishes, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Design Council, Designing-In Health and Wellbeing, Devon, Ebbsfleet Garden City: Kent, Ebbsfleet Obesity Strategy, Elmsbrook Project (Oxfordshire), Exercise, Fast Food, Fast Food Consumption, Fast Food Outlets, Fast-Food-Free Zones, Fast-Food-Free Zones (Around Schools), Green Spaces, Halton Lea: Runcorn, Hampshire, Health and Housing, Health Benefits of Green Space, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Living, Healthy Neighbourhoods, Healthy New Towns, Healthy New Towns Programme, Healthy Placemaking, Healthy Weight, Hogmoor Inclosure. Dementia-Friendly Family Park, Housing and Care for Older People, Housing and Dementia, Housing for Older People, Housing in Later Life, Improving Access to Green Spaces, Independence, Independence at Home, Independent Living, Independent Living At Home, Integrated Prevention Approaches, Kent, Lancashire, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Intervention Programmes, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Lifestyle Weight Management, Local Empowerment, Local Green Spaces, Local Healthy Development Principles, London, Maintaining Healthy Weight and Preventing Excess Weight Gain Among Children and Adults, NHS England’s Healthy New Towns Programme, North West, Northstowe: Cambridgeshire, Obesity, Obesity - Burden of Ill-Health Links, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Obesity is the New Smoking, Obesity Risk Factor, Obesogenic Environments, Oxford, Oxfordshire, PA Consulting, PA Consulting Group, PHE: Public Health England, Physical Activity, Physical Activity and the Environment, Physical Exercise, Preventing and Managing Demand, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Agenda Linking Dementia and Other Non-Communicable Diseases, Prevention Approaches, Professor Kevin Fenton: National Director of Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England, Public Awareness, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Putting Health Into Place: Interim Report on Healthy New Towns Programme (2018), Reducing Demand (Treatment and Recovery), Reducing Downstream Spending (Prevention Public Health and Self-Care), Risk Factors, Runcorn, Signage, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Social Epidemiology, Social Prescribing, Social Wellbeing, South West, Staying Healthy for Longer, Support for People with Complex Needs, Supporting People to Manage Their Health, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Sustainable Health and Social Care, TCPA, Virtual Access to GP Services, Virtual Care Home (Darlington), Weight Management, Wellbeing, Whitehill and Bordon: Hampshire, Whyndyke Farm in Fylde: Lancashire, Young Foundation
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Reduction of Health Inequalities: Natural Solutions? (UCL IHE / JCN / BBC News)
Summary This UCL Institute of Health Equity report presents the evidence on the benefits of green spaces for improving health and wellbeing outcomes. Inequalities in access to natural environments in England are thought to contribute to health inequalities. The report … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access Standards, Access to Green Space, Access to Green Spaces, Access to Green Spaces and Deprivation, Access to Greenspace, Access to Nature, Accessible Natural Greenspace Standard (ANGSt), Active England, Active Parks, Activities for Population Health, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Barriers to Engagement With the Natural Environment, BBC Health News, Beat the Street, Benefits of Activity, Birmingham City Council, Birmingham’s NHS-funded Be Active Programme, Bromley-by-Bow Healthy Living Centre in East London, Campaign for National Parks (CNP), Capital Woodlands, Cardiovascular Disease, Care Farming UK, Causes of Premature Mortality, Childhood Obesity, Conservation Volunteers’ Green Gyms Programme, Coventry Mind’s Ecotherapy Service, CVD: Cardiovascular Disease, Diakonhjemmet University College (Oslo), Disability Free Life Expectancy (DFLE), Ecominds: PoLLeN (People, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Evaluation of Access to Nature Education Projects, Exercise, Fields in Trust, Forest Schools, Garden Areas, Gardening, Gardens in Care Homes, Green Exercise Partnership, Green Exercise Partnership (GEP), Green Space and Health Inequalities, Greening Dementia, Greening Dementia Project, Greenspace and Obesity, Greenspace for Health and Exercise, Health and the Natural Environment, Health Equity, Health Equity and Impact, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Healthy and Active Ageing: Life-Course Approach (WHO), Horticultural Activities, Horticultural Therapy, Horticulture, Improving Access to Green Spaces, Institute of Health and Society: University of Oslo, Institute of Health Equity, Institute of Health Equity (UCL), Institute of Nursing and Health: Diakonhjemmet University College, Integration of Physical and Mental Health, Intelligent Health, IPEN (International Physical Activity and the Environment Network), Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Journal of Clinical Nursing, JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Landscape & Nature), Life, Life-Course Approach to Healthy and Active Ageing, Local Action on Health Inequalities, Local Action on Reducing Health Inequalities, Local Authorities, Local Authority Adult Obesity Variations (England), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Mappiness App, Marmot Review, Mersey Forest Natural Health Service, Midlife Obesity, Mind’s Ecominds Scheme, Mosaic, Mosaic Young Champions Project, National Outdoors for All Working Group, Natural Connections Demonstration Project, Natural England, Natural England’s “Outdoors for All” Programme, Natural England’s Walking for Health Scheme, Natural Environment, Natural Solutions to Tackling Health Inequalities, Neighbourhood Greenness, Norway, Obesity, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Outdoor Activities, Outdoors for All Strategic Research Group, Parks and Gardens, Parks and Green Spaces, PHE: Public Health England, PHOF: Public Health Outcomes Framework, Physical Activity, Physical Activity and the Environment, Physical Environment, Physical Exercise, Premature Mortality, Proportionate Universalism, Public Engagement, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Interventions, Public Health Outcomes Framework, Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF), Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Premature Mortality, Revaluing Parks and Green Spaces (Fields in Trust), Sensory Gardens, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Value Act 2012, Stepping Stones to Nature (SS2N) Project, TCV Green Gyms®, Therapeutic Horticulture, Travelling to School Initiative, UCL Institute of Health Equity, University College London Institute of Health Equity, University of Oslo, Updated Marmot Indicators (IHE), Urban Green Space and Trees, VisitWoods East Durham Outreach, Woodland Health for Youth (WHY), Woodland Trust’s Woodland Access Standard
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