Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England ' s Healthy New Towns programme.

This report features a collection of essays providing insights from those involved in the Healthy New Towns programme which illustrate how powerful a coherent local approach to improving population health can be. The report highlights there is significant potential to improve population health through place-making and community development and stresses the need for the NHS to be closely involved in major housing developments and regeneration programmes in order to improve health and care outcomes.

Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - October 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news