Contributing to practice and policy
The Bromley by Bow Centre has a significant track record of developing and sharing innovative practice and has contributed to a number of major policy initiatives, including the development of the national Sure Start, Children’s Centre, Health Trainer and Healthy Living Centre programmes.
The Centre is actively engaged in the current policy development around the transformation of provision, and the reorientation of resources, to more effectively improve the health and wellbeing of our communities. Based on our successful practice in east London, we have recently published two papers to contribute to and widen the debate.
A discussion paper exploring the challenges in trying to replicate the Bromley by Bow model and the positive opportunities for translating the model.
You can download the paper here.
An outline of a more radical model that goes beyond the “health and social care debate” and advocates for an approach which puts communities in charge of health.
You can download the paper here
Unleashing Healthy Communities
Positions the Bromley by Bow model in relation to the Marmot Review and provides a short summary of what we do and a rationale for the approach.
You can download the paper here
We would welcome reflections and feedback from others on these paper, please contact, Dan Hopewell Director of Knowledge & Innovation dan.hopewell@bbbc.org.uk
The Health Gap
Sir Michael Marmot discusses the conclusions of his latest book, The Health Gap, on what the government should being doing to tackle the health inequality problem with Sir Sam Everington and Polly Toynbee.
Listen to the discussion on the Health Gap here: https://www.theguardian.com/membership/audio/2016/feb/18/the-health-gap-guardian-live-event
Contributions to policy and practice development
The Bromley by Bow Centre has undertaken significant pieces of evaluation including on its work with elders, mental health and its regeneration practice. The Centre has contributed to and been cited in a number of recent health policy reports, including:
The Future is Now, Chris Ham & Hannah Brown, (2015, The King’s Fund)
Population health systems - Going beyond integrated care, Hugh Alderwick, Chris Ham and David Buck, (2015, The King’s Fund)
Developing Asset Based Approaches to Primary Care, Best Practice Guide. (2016, Greater Manchester Public Health Network and the Innovation Unit). The guide proposes that an 'asset based' model of primary care will help to realise a different relationship between public services and the communities and people they support - one that taps into the existing skills and resources in people and places to reduce demand on primary and secondary health and care services.
Gardens and health, Implications for policy and practice, David Buck, (2016, King's Fund).