Health and wellbeing UK news

• AI is beating doctors at empathy – because we’ve turned doctors into robots, theconversation.com (Nov 07, 2025)
• Life in the UK didn’t improve last year reveals 7000-person study, carnegieuk.org (Oct 01, 2025) — The UK scores 41 out of a possible 100 for democratic wellbeing
• Kent GPs under 'unsustainable pressure', BBC News (Sep 30, 2025)
• Whitstable campaigners fight to stop 1,350 home development, BBC News (Sep 29, 2025) — local residents stepping up their campaign to fight what they have said would be the "largest ever development" in their part of Kent
• How Japanese 'tiny forests' are sweeping Scotland, BBC Future (Sep 11, 2025) — Grown using the Miyawaki method, fast-growing miniature forests in the middle of cities can bring surprisingly big benefits for people and the environment.
• English housing project aims to transform later-life living, positive.news (Sep 01, 2025)
• Trial sees A&E visits drop by nearly 70% for group, BBC News (Aug 21, 2025)
• Bite Back: the young activists taking on the junk food giants, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 24, 2025)
• Public diners: a taste of the future, nourishscotland.org (Jul 08, 2025)
• What people really want from their GP – it’s simpler than you might think, theconversation.com (Jul 07, 2025)
• London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’, theguardian.com (Jul 07, 2025) — “LTNs have led to considerable reductions in road traffic injuries inside their boundaries for all road users – from pedestrians and cyclists to drivers. At the same time, concerns about nearby main roads becoming more dangerous aren’t supported by the evidence.” Dr Jamie Furlong
• The NHS ten-year health plan is missing a crucial ingredient: nature, theconversation.com (Jul 04, 2025)
• Low emission zones are successful in cutting air pollution, study finds, theguardian.com (May 16, 2025)
• The English neighbourhood that claims to hold the secret to fixing the NHS, BBC News (Apr 08, 2025)
• Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2025) — People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
• The UK’s food system is broken. A green new deal for agriculture could be revolutionary, theconversation.com (Feb 28, 2025)
• ‘Lush bread – for all.’ Placing affordable loaves where they’re most needed, positive.news (Feb 21, 2025)
• The bakery that offers pay-as-you-can-afford bread, positive.news (Feb 18, 2025)

• Stop punishing doctors who take part in climate protests, regulator told, theguardian.com (Oct 27, 2024) — Hundreds of health workers sign letter to General Medical Council calling for halt to suspensions as GP faces jail for activism
• Cosmolocal Health System Anyone?, Alternative Editorial (Oct 23, 2024)
• The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too

• Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh, theguardian.com (Aug 20, 2024)
• Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work, survey suggests, theguardian.com (Aug 16, 2024)
• ‘Building something better’: the UK residents retrofitting their homes amid the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Aug 03, 2024) — From weekly skills-sharing to rewilding streets, communities are working to improve the planet while bolstering the health of people

• Fruit & veg deserts & the death knoll of the local greengrocer, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 23, 2024) — Is there a way back?
• Beach cleans aren’t just good for the sea – they can boost your mental health and encourage better behaviour, theconversation.com (Jul 19, 2024)

• It’s easy, it’s everywhere: the simple solution improving mental health around the globe, positive.news (May 20, 2024)

• The secret ingredient for optimum health? Kindness, says this fitness expert, positive.news (Dec 19, 2023)
• Social prescribing: coming to a forest near you?, positive.news (Sep 19, 2023)
• Three places offering free holidays for people who really need it, positive.news (Jul 21, 2023)
• How did the social care system end up in crisis and how can it be fixed? Expert Q&A, The Conversation (Jul 05, 2023)
• Not a ‘nice to have’ – the importance of working with people and communities, kingsfund.org.uk (Jun 23, 2023)
• How universal basic income’s impact on people’s finances could transform the nation’s health, The Conversation (Jun 12, 2023)
• The African choirs tackling loneliness in England’s care homes, positive.news (Apr 26, 2023)

• I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health. Sanah Ahsan, The Guardian (Sep 06, 2022)
• As the Welsh Government begin their Universal Basic Income trials, here’s how it can help the mental health of young people, The Daily Alternative (Jul 26, 2022)
• Recognising communities and citizens as generative participants in a pluralistic and shared future, and as the people best placed to organise and produce solutions to the problems that affect them, Neighbourhood Democracy Movement (Jul 18, 2022) — Responding to the New Local NHS Paradigms Report

• London hospital trust to pay £250k to install LTN for public health benefits, Nov 17, 2020...^[1]
• Over 200 community support groups spring up as neighbours offer support during Coronavirus outbreak, Mutual Aid Press Release,^[2] Mar 15, 2020.
• Air pollution is now a 'health emergency', head of NHS England warns...^[3] Oct 21, 2019.
• Mind over natter: the English town with a big mental health plan...^[4] Sep 11, 2019.
• Urban co-design for better wellbeing and health: Healthy New Town...^[5] Jan 9, 2019.

References

• Prototyping a 'Citizen Research Centre' by Sarah Drummond, Nov 14, 2018^[1]
• Future proofing with kindness.^[2] Oct 9, 2018
• Can we radically transform the way we deliver health and social care in the UK? Feb 26^[3]
• The town that's found a potent cure for illness – community, Feb 21, George Monbiot....^[4]
• We need to talk about ageing – and it's about far more than the NHS, Feb 4, John Harris.^[5]
• Saving the NHS means forcing us to change the way we lead our lives, Nick Cohen, Jan 28.^[6]

References

• Huge health gap revealed between UK's rich and poor, Dec 23, 2017...^[1]
• Yes, This Is Britain's Happiest Place. (It Looks Beautiful in the Rain.) Nov 13, 2017...^[2]
• Caring Town: Fiona Ward, May 3, 2017...^[3]
• People, place and partnerships in health, May 2, 2017...^[4]
• Being poor kills – to improve public health the government must tackle inequality, Apr 10, 2017...^[5]
• Health hackers: the patients taking medical innovation into their own hands, October 26, 2015...^[6]
• Top doctor: social inequality in UK costing 550 lives every day, September 10, 2015...^[7]

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