Innovation in local government is about improving the lives of the people in our
communities. Browse through our case studies to see the many innovative programmes councils are involved
in.
Wiltshire Council’s Public Health Team commissioned a pilot programme of 18 mobile dental outreach clinics across supported accommodation sites in Trowbridge, Chippenham, and Salisbury.
The public health team at Dudley Council has worked with the local breast cancer screening service to help boost uptake in one of the West Midlands’ most deprived communities.
The London borough of Barking and Dagenham has partnered with local NHS teams and the voluntary sector to run pop-up clinics offering child immunisations and access to GPs.
Somerset Council and its NHS partners have successfully reframed their approach to homeless health, using insight-driven service design to deliver support that makes a real difference to the lives of vulnerable people.
Suffolk’s public health and communities team are using a data-driven approach to review local premises licence applications, focusing their influence on areas with the worst alcohol-related health harms and health inequalities. This work has been welcomed by local partners, including licensing officers and the police, for helping to reduce alcohol-related harm.
St Helens Borough Council, working in collaboration with its partners through an award-winning inequalities commission, is looking at how stigma can exacerbate the inequalities affecting many aspects of people’s lives. Together, they are exploring how stigma can affect people’s access to and experience of a range of services, and how system change can help to combat this.
‘Communities Keeping Well’ is an innovative community partnership in Tower Hamlets using co-production to stimulate community engagement and grow participation, volunteering, networks and cohesion.
Kirklees has a valuable resource in its network of community champions – local residents trained to share important health and wellbeing messages within their communities. The champions use their local knowledge and connections to have conversations which provide information, raise awareness, educate and signpost people to the right support.
Worcestershire County Council has focussed on community development work in individual neighbourhoods to tackle health inequalities in the most deprived areas.