A Natural Health Service? Joining forces for place-based health and wellbeing – A Better Way in partnership with Wildlife Trusts
In the second of our series exploring how we can Join Forces for Place Based Health and Wellbeing, on Thursday 13 May between 10.00-11.30am we are excited to be holding a joint meeting with A Better Way member Dom Higgins, who is Head of Health and Education at The Wildlife Trusts. The Wildlife Trusts is a grassroots movement that brings together people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. There are 46 Wildlife Trusts across the UK with more than 900,000 members, over 39,000 volunteers, 3,600 staff and 600 trustees.
The meeting will build on our work with NHS England over the last 5 years, in particular our most recent learning partner report, which emphasised the need to build place-based, cross-sector health and wellbeing collaborations and develop greater relationship building and joining of forces between Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and local place-based anchor organisations.
We will introduce the concept of “A Natural Health Service” and how nature has a fundamental role to play in tackling health, access and societal inequalities, and achieve one of Michael Marmot’s key strategic objectives: to "create and develop healthy and sustainable places and communities".
Following this introduction, we would like to explore together what policies and interventions we need to prioritise, including those that reduce health inequalities, mitigate climate change, as well as supporting people to adapt, and to improve access to good quality., open green and blue spaces. We will also learn more about the role that Wildlife Trusts can play as a bridging organisation between ICB’s, place-based philanthropists, local voluntary and community sector groups and local people.
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If you would like to reserve a place for this online meeting you can either fill out our booking form or contact info@betterway.network.
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