Archived Consultation Responses
Health Signposts
Title: Reuniting health with planning
Publisher: Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA)
Date: 2012
Resource: Guide
Description: Guide to promote integrated working between health and planning authorities, in light of recent legislative reforms to both areas. Also contains case studies of best practice.
Title: Shaping Cities for Health
Date: 2012
Resource: Report
Description: Collaboration between The Lancet and University College London, UK, has resulted in the second UCL Lancet Commission report. The report analyses how health outcomes are part of the complexity of urban processes, drawing attention to the part that urban planning can and should play in delivering health improvements through reshaping the urban fabric of our cities
Title: Healthy places: councils leading on public health
Publisher: National Local Government Network (NLGN)
Date: 2012
Resource: Survey and follow-up report
Description: Drawing on a new survey of over 50 councils and interviews with 28 senior officials involved in setting up the new Health and Wellbeing Boards, the report calls for a set of new powers to enhance the promotion of joined up working by Health and Wellbeing Boards.
Title: Two Years On
Publisher: Institute of Health Inequality
Date: 2012
Description: Publication to mark the 2nd anniversary of the Marmot Review, reviewing what progress has been made towards the recommendations in the 2010 review.
Title: The Marmot Review: implications for spatial planning
Publisher: National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Date: 2011
Resource: Report
Description: The report is intended to inform the NICE work on evidence relating to spatial planning and health. It aims to provide evidence on the relationship between aspects of spatial planning, the built environment, health and health inequalities.
Title: Plugging Health into Planning
Publisher: Local Government Group
Date: 2011
Resource: Evidence and best practice guide
Description: Online set of resources to help practitioners integrate health and spatial planning.
Title: ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives’ (The Marmot Review)
Publisher: UCL Institute of Health Equity
Date: 2010
Resource: Report
Description: In November 2008, Professor Sir Michael Marmot was asked by the then Secretary of State for Health to chair an independent review to propose the most effective evidence-based strategies for reducing health inequalities in England from
2010.
Title: Health inequalities
Publisher: House of Commons Health Select Committee
Date: March 2009
Resource: Report
Description: Report of evidence. The section on built environment (pp 105 onwards) concludes that health must be a primary consideration in planning decisions and recommends the need for a planning policy statement on health.
Title: NHS Sustainable Development Unit
Publisher: NHS
Date: Ongoing
Resource: Website
Description: Provides leadership, support and policy input to ensure the NHS in England is able to fulfil its ambition to be the most visible and effective public sector exemplar in sustainable development in general and carbon reduction in particular. The NHS is responsible for over 18 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum, the largest public sector contributor to climate change.
Title: Delivering healthy communities: GPN5
Publisher: RTPI
Date: June 2009
Resource: Guidance
Description: Highlights the crucial role planning has to play in developing sustainable and healthy communities. Includes summaries of the key issues and provides recommendations for improved ways of working.
Title: Review package for health impact assessment reports
Publisher: HIA Gateway, West Midlands Public Health Observatory
Date: June 2009
Resource: Guidance
Description: Enables a commissioner or reviewer of an HIA report to reach an opinion as to the quality of the completed report in a simple, quick and systematic manner. Focuses on reports submitted as evidence with an application for development consent, but may be applicable to a wider range of HIAs.
Title: Health inequalities intervention tool
Publisher: London Health Observatory
Date: June 2008
Resource: Information source and health inequalities analysis
Description: Provides information on life expectancy and analysis of causes of death; and allows local authorities to estimate the effect on their life expectancy if certain interventions are increased.
Title: Physical activity and the environment
Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Date: 2008
Resource: Public health programme guidance
Description: Offers the first national, evidence-based recommendations on how to improve the physical environment to encourage physical activity. It demonstrates the importance of such improvements and the need to evaluate how they impact on the public's health.
Title: Prevention is still better cure: planning for healthy communities
Publisher: Planning Advisory Service
Date: November 2008
Resource: Best practice case studies
Description: Reports on successful initiatives councils are taking in creating health-promoting environments and contributing to the provision of health facilities.
Title: Health and planning toolkit RTPIPlanning Awards 2007 Winner
Publisher: NHS London Healthy Urban Development Unit (HUDU)
Date: 2007
Resource: Online toolkit
Description: Sets out a systematic approach to building the relationship between primary care trusts and local planning authorities. It acts as a handbook on how the local development framework and planning application processes should address health.
Title: Good places, better health: a new approach to the environment and health in Scotland: implementation plan
Publisher: The Scottish Government
Date: December 2008
Resource: Strategy
Description: Implementation plan recognising the need for better connections around how the physical environment influences health
Title: Health impact assessment
Publisher: World Health Organisation WHO (Europe)
Date: Ongoing
Resource: Web resource
Description: Explains the background to and different forms of impact assessment processes, along with how to practically introduce HIA at the local level. HIA tools are provided as well as case study examples.
Title: Health impact assessment of transport initiatives: a guide
Publisher: Health Scotland
Date: 2007
Resource: Introductory guidance
Description: Overview of the best available research evidence on the health impacts (positive and negative) of transport initiatives.
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