Centre for Health and Care Equity
- Decolonising Healthcare Innovation: A Panel Discussion: Blog sharing thoughts and reflections from a recent event Decolonising Healthcare Innovation: A Panel Discussion held in partnership with Queen Mary University London: Centre for Public Health and Policy. A video of the event can be found here
- Cost of Living Wellbeing Team: An overview of the Cost of Living Wellbeing Team, a team established to support residents who live alone, are over 75 and have long term health conditions that put them at particular risk from damp and cold.
- Social Prescribers in Community Organisations: Emerging lessons from a pilot to train and skill health advisors (social prescribers) in three grass roots community organisations to how that differs from GP based social prescribers. (poster)
- The Newham Social Welfare Alliance: Lessons from our sector leading approach to build capacity and knowledge for all first point of contact people across the borough (including volunteers) through regular free training sessions on topics that front line staff often come across. (poster)
- Piloting Health Outreach at TFL Stations: What we learned when Newham Council partnered with the Mayor of London to set up stalls at select TFL stations to improve health literacy through dissemination of simple health information at easy to access places. (poster)
- Supporting Asylum Seekers in Contingency Hotels: Lessons from work carried out by local partners to deliver targeted support for families seeking asylum and living in contingency hotels in the borough. (poster)
- Newham Community Vitamin D Programme: What we’re learning by working hand in hand with voluntary, faith, community organisations, GP surgeries, libraries and more to distribute Vitamin D supplements in their communities. (poster)
- It takes a Village: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 Champions programme
To find out more about any of these projects or our work in general please contact Anne Bowers, lead for learning and capturing practice, anne.bowers@newham.gov.uk.
Representatives from across NHS, Council and the voluntary and community sector and wider community presented opportunities for academic collaboration.
Newham Council, Public Health | The Art of Tackling Inequalities in Health and Care: A New Framework for Action and Insight (PPT) | Adeola Agbebiyi |
Newham Council, Public Health | Youth Safety: a Public Health Approach (PPT) | Cassandra Beckford |
Newham Council, Early Years Commissioning | Integrated Front Door East Ham Pilot (PPT) | Christina Pace |
Newham Council, Quality Assurance, Safeguarding and Workforce Development | Self-neglect and Safeguarding (PPT) | Claire Solley |
Newham Council, Public Health | Young People and Vaping (PPT) |
Sumaiyah Rahman Elizabeth Owen |
Newham Council, Transformation | Wrap Around Support for People Living in Temporary Accommodation (PDF) | Halima Khan |
Newham Council, Climate Action | Climate Action and Just Transition (PPT) | Jacob Heitland |
Compost London and One Newham | Supporting VCS Groups Grow, Develop and Thrive (PPT) | Joy Lagunda |
NHS, Health Equity and PCN Transformation | Tackling Neighbourhood Health Inequalities (PPT) |
Rachel Ashworth Khristle Absalad |
Newham Council, Climate Action | Retrofit in Newham (PPT) | Eliza Stuart |
Newham Community Project | Community Projects in Action (PPT) | Rozina Iqbal |