AA Projects’ Sarah Butler discusses a new NHS England resource which aims to show how the NHS can use and manage its estate ‘as a catalyst to boost social value, address local priorities, and enhance the wider determinants of health’.
Associate director at AA Projects, Sarah Butler, discusses a new resource, ‘Building for Health: The role of Estates in reducing health inequalities’, created by NHS England, and developed through desk-based research and engagement with a range of stakeholders. Its principal aim is to demonstrate how, as an anchor organisation, the NHS can use and manage its estate ‘as a catalyst to boost social value, address local priorities, and enhance the wider determinants of health, contributing to the reduction of health inequalities’
The NHS is one of England’s largest landowners. As an anchor institution and as a partner in its local community, the NHS can strategically and intentionally manage its land and buildings in a way which adds social value (positive social, economic, and environmental impacts), enhances the wider determinants of health, and reduces health inequalities
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