Our insights
Lessons in addressing some of the most challenging urban health issues of our time
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Towards the tipping point - no more permissiveness
Eric van der Burg, Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam approaches childhood obesity as an epidemic, sharing insights from how the city achieved a declining trend in rates.
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Environmental influences on children's weight
Shirley Cramer of the Royal Society for Public Health addresses the factors contributing to the obesogenic environment and what it’ll take to prevent it.
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Learning from the voluntary and community sector
To improve care for people with long-term conditions, our sectors must come together more often, listen better and learn from one another, write Jo Bibby and Kieron Boyle.
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A whole-system approach to health inequalities must start with being honest
Our Partnerships Manager Rowena Estwick attended the recent Health in All Policies (HiAP) 2018 conference and has written a blog on the important place honesty has in shaping a whole-system approach to health inequalities.
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Multiple long-term conditions – the price of success?
Dr Martin McShane, Chief Medical Officer Clinical Delivery at Optum has written a blog for us on how shifting approaches and the use of data science can improve care for people with multiple long-term conditions.
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What we are asking the Mayor to do about health inequalities
Our Partnerships Manager Rowena Estwick has written a blog on the Mayor of London's new draft Health Inequalities strategy and its welcomed focus on childhood obesity.
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A different approach to health for Portuguese speakers
Dr Vikesh Sharma on the insights from our partnership to engage with the local Portuguese speaking community around health.
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Creating a good food culture at school
Dela Foster and Stephanie Wood, from charity School Food Matters, on creating a better food culture in schools to help tackle child obesity.
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Testing and learning to tackle health challenges
Our Chief Executive Kieron Boyle, on how we're testing approaches as part of the development phase of our childhood obesity and multiple long-term conditions programmes.
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Helping people live their lives to the full
At the end of 2016, I was asked to lead the development of a programme on multiple long-term conditions here at the Charity. It has been a voyage of discovery for me. How do you get to grips with one of the greatest challenges facing medicine and society today?