Health and Social Care

Southern Policy Centre has been exploring how we should respond to one of the biggest challenges facing society today: how we ensure the health and wellbeing of our population. We’re interested in understanding what those challenges are for the central South and how organisations across the region can work together to find innovative solutions.

Our work follows three broad themes:

Living Well
Pressure on public services
Innovative ways of understanding local needs and solutions: NQM Care Analytics

Blog posts relating to the Southern Policy Centre’s research into health and social care in southern England:

Young People’s Experiences During the COVID 19 Crisis

April 28, 2020

Ruth Eastwood

All, Health and Social Care, News, Working with young people

Local young people are hidden victims in this pandemic. They do not receive as much help as others as they are not seen as a priority during this crisis. These young people are more likely to suffer serious hardship during the present situation as they are often in less secure employment with zero-hour contracts and in accommodation where landlords are refusing to reduce rents. Many who are in education feeling unsupported and anxious of how their future is going to…

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Living Well: Health and wellbeing for a better quality of life

March 15, 2019

Flic Goodyear

Health and Social Care, News, Publications

In March 2018 the University of Winchester and Southern Policy Centre hosted a seminar on health and social care, exploring the challenges facing the Central South as we strive to meet the pressures demographic changes put on our health and social services. The growing number of older people is in no small measure due to the medical and social progress we have made in recent years. Yet, whilst many can look forward to longer lives, they may also face more…

A summary of our seminar on health and social care

April 13, 2018

Flic Goodyear

Adult social care, Blog, Health and Social Care

On March 22nd the University of Winchester and Southern Policy Centre co-hosted a seminar to explore the impact on the Central South of England of the changing make-up of our society. The event was chaired by Professor John Denham, Director of the Southern Policy Centre, and heard presentations from Lord Geoffrey Filkin of the Centre for Ageing Better, Alex Whitfield from the Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust and Graham Allen from Hampshire County Council. The audience of nearly 200 took part in…