Learning Across Continents: Reflections from Brazil’s Community Health Workers
CHWW Programme Manager Marcus McAlister travelled to Brazil to see the model that inspired the UK’s CHWW Programme firsthand. Here, he shares what he found.
Making Neighbourhood Health a Reality
As explored in a recent conversation between Dr Johnny Marshall and Andy Mullins, Neighbourhood health has been talked about for years. The ambition is well understood. But turning that aspiration into reality has always been the hard part.
Making Neighbourhood Health A Reality – Podcast
In this episode, NAPC Senior Leader Dr Johnny Marshall, sits down with NAPC faculty member and NNHIP coach Andy Mullins to explore what the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP) really looks like on the ground.
Digital prevention
In this episode, Dr Johnny Marshall explores how digital could move beyond managing illness to enabling connection, confidence, and healthier lives, and what it would take to make that shift real in neighbourhoods.
Not just an MDT
In this episode, Dr Johnny Marshall explores why Neighbourhood Teams are not just bigger MDTs, but a fundamentally different way of working. Shifting from reactive care to proactive health creation, and why the people best placed to lead that change are those already working in MDTs today.
Workforce planning
In this episode, Dr Johnny Marshall explores how neighbourhood health turns workforce planning on its head. Starting with people, co-designing support, and building teams around the skills needed to help communities stay well, not just respond when they become unwell.
Doughnuts and the NHS
IIn this episode, Dr Johnny Marshall explores how the idea of doughnut economics offers a different lens for the NHS — one that balances social need with sustainable use of resources, and reframes what it really means for people and communities to thrive.
Decision making quality part two
In this episode, Dr Johnny Marshall explores Professor Al Mulley’s five levels of decision quality and how moving from certainty to shared choice can transform outcomes, experience, and the long-term sustainability of the NHS.
Community health and well-Being workers
In this episode, Dr Johnny Marshall explore how Community Health and Wellbeing Workers bring neighbourhood health to life; building trust, spotting need early, and creating the conditions for better outcomes, reduced demand, and more human care
Decision making quality part one
In this episode, Dr Johnny Marshall explores why clinical decision making shapes outcomes, costs, and experience more than anything else, and why improving the quality of those conversations may be the most important step towards a safe and sustainable NHS.
