With thanks to our colleagues from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust please find the latest bulletin attached. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. For support accessing any of the articles, please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert
This report warns that the UK’s deep health inequalities and ineffective policies mean people are living shorter lives, with more years spent in poor health, and face greater barriers to staying in and getting on at work. It calls for a new post-pandemic approach to the nation’s health to ensure people can enjoy living healthy lives longer and to improve the nation’s economy. A new cross-party Health and Prosperity Commission is being launched to explore how good health can be the foundation for a fair and prosperous economy.
Source: Ambition for Ageing
There has been a shift in recent years towards looking at social isolation and loneliness as an area of policy. In this podcast guests Paul McGarry and Kate Jopling talk about the move from deficit-based models where we link ageing purely to health and social care to looking at assets and supporting older people to continue being active within their communities.
Topics covered include the impact of cuts and population changes on how we age, why the difference between loneliness and social isolation is important and how understanding the difference between the two can shape how we support people. This episode also features short discussions with Ageing Better partners Vic Stirling from Sheffield, Stephen Raybold from Birmingham and Corinna Hyman from Camden.
Listen to the podcast here.
This policy aims to set out for the first time for the NHS the core aims and values of the LeDeR programme and the expectations placed on different parts of the health and social care system in delivering the programme from June 2021.
Also available in easy read format.
In 2015 the What Works Centre for Wellbeing became part of the What Works Network across the UK in the academic, charity, public, and private sectors. The network has created approaches to understand, measure and improve wellbeing in a range of contexts. This report updates the Commission on Wellbeing and Policy with evidence-informed priority policy areas. It outlines policy and practice changes across the UK, and what that means for government, business and civil society in post-Brexit Britain. The report sets out: what wellbeing impacts look like in different contexts; what works to improve wellbeing; and how to use a wellbeing lens to create more relevant, effective policy.
Read the report here
