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Life Sciences in the central South
Life sciences in the central South Southern Policy Centre launched a report in October 2022 that examines one of the central South’s unsung stories: its strength in fostering and promoting the life sciences. Equipped with some world-class facilities and the imagination to capitalise on advances in science and medical research, […]
Levelling Up White Paper: a response from the central South
Levelling Up White Paper: a response from the central South In mid-March, the Southern Policy Centre held a webinar to discuss the Government’s Levelling Up and Devolution White Paper [1]with speakers from local councils, business and national think tanks. Here SPC Director John Denham reflects on some of the challenges […]
Starting Well: giving young people the best chance in life
Starting Well: giving young people the best chance in life Introduction The University of Winchester and Southern Policy Centre have been working together to encourage what we believe is a timely and important debate about how we can secure a better life for all members of society. On 26th January […]
Briefing-Starting Well: giving young people the best chance in life
Starting Well Southern Policy Centre has been exploring the health and well-being of communities in the central South: what will allow everyone to enjoy full and active lives. In a series of three seminars hosted jointly with the University of Winchester, we aimed to encourage a wider discussion and debate […]
Hancock’s health reforms – lessons from history
Hancock’s Health Reforms – lessons from history When Matt Hancock announced that Integrated Care Systems would see ‘the NHS and local councils take decisions about local health together’ it rang a bell. A quick internet search and there it was, in the NHS Plan 2000: ‘For the first time, social services and […]
Data Analytics & Social Care: using data to improve care outcomes
Final report from the Seminar and Workshop – 3 December 2020 In December 2020 Southern Policy Centre (SPC) and Nquiringminds (NQM) completed a 21-month project – Care Analytics. The project, supported by Innovate UK, explored how social care authorities can use Artificial Intelligence techniques and a wide range of data […]
Living Well: Health and wellbeing for a better quality of life
Living Well: Health and wellbeing for abetter quality of life In 2019 the SPC and University of Winchester joint seminar explored what is meant by ‘living well.’ Lord Geoffrey Filkin from the Centre for Ageing Better, put it very simply: longer lives are a great opportunity, but what will make […]