Why NHS Staff Health and Wellbeing Isn’t a Niche Issue
The director of staff experience & engagement at NHS England reflects on how the pandemic and the NHS People Plan have made staff wellbeing a key priority.
Article type: Blog
Where Do I Sit in the Double Helix Model?
Bridging the gap between demand and supply means navigating the natural tensions that arise from the constant push and pull between the two. Demand is never linear and presents itself in informal and formal ways and being able to tease out key themes, trends and patterns from the general policy landscape is a specialised skill.
Five Policy Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ireland
Over the past year, Ireland’s National Economic and Social Council (NESC) has analysed the pandemic to extract lessons for public policy.
Adding an intelligent data ecosystem to urban planning: a dynamic knowledge graph approach
Ahead of appearing at our Urban Intelligence event on Thursday 7 July at 3 pm BST, Dr. Aurel von Richthofen and colleagues argue for data interoperability and compatibility to enable sustainable city planning. Hou...
How Science Advice was Inhibited and Facilitated in Ghana during COVID-19
Ghana’s response was lauded as exemplary in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak. However the country did not develop a clearly documented strategic plan of its own.
Can China’s zero-COVID Policy Stand Up to the Test?
Virologist Feng Gao is head of the Institute of Molecular and Medical Virology at Jinan University in southern China’s Guangzhou, and an emeritus professor at Duke University in Durham in the United States. Gao...
Public Spending and the Legacy Effects of COVID-19
What is clear in looking to the months and years ahead budgets will be exceptionally tight and many will fall in real terms.
Building a better London for everyone: a safer, fairer, greener and more prosperous city for all Londoners
In advance of delivering a keynote speech at our Urban Recovery Plans event with the Greater London Authority and the London Research and Policy Partnership (LRaPP) on 7 June at 3 pm BST, Dr...
Notes from Bilbao: why is it necessary to incorporate psychology in urban planning?
Idoia Postigo, General Director of Bilbao Metropoli-30, writes for IPPO Cities on the emotional life of the city and calls for a more holistic urban planning. Idoia Postigo Living in an urban environment is...
To Learn the Lessons, the COVID-19 Public Inquiry Must Consider the Experiences of Migrants During the Pandemic
Matteo Besana is the COVID-19 Advocacy Project Lead for Doctors of the World UK Matteo Besana Earlier in the year, the government published the draft Terms of Reference for the forthcoming public inquiry into...
