The Knowledge Exchange Blog
Buurtzorg: reinventing district nursing in Scotland
Buurtzorg roughly translates from its native Dutch as “neighbourhood care”. The model, used extensively in the Netherlands, has attracted international attention as a novel way to deliver community based nursing programmes. Its positive ….
Technical education – reformed for whose benefit?
by Stacey Dingwall
The expansion of grammar schools may not have made it into this year’s delayed and reduced Queen’s Speech but another education policy did – the government’s planned ‘major’ reform of technical ….
The CABE Experiment and housing design: where have all the leaders gone?
Bad design? Housing development in Melton Mowbray by Persimmon
Guest blog: Matthew Carmona and Lucy Natarajan
Here at The Bartlett, UCL we recently completed a major study of the eleven years of publically funded CABE, the Commission for Architecture ….
Planning for the digital economy
The digital tech sector is the UK’s fastest growing sector. Recent statistics show that it is growing as much as 50% faster than the wider economy. In London alone, a ….
Working longer – the reality ‘behind the headlines’
By Heather Cameron
With no shortage of headlines highlighting the record employment rate in the UK, and the increasing number of older workers widely reported, it may seem that the outlook for ….
Maggie’s Centres: wellness through building design and the environment
In March 2017, the 20th Maggie’s Centre was opened in the grounds of Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Falkirk. Designed by architects Garbers & James, it is expected to receive 3000 visits in the first year.
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Moving stories: how poetry is carrying the message about mobility challenges facing older people
All too often, valuable results from research reports receive an initial burst of publicity before being shelved and then largely forgotten. But one project has been keeping its research in the public eye by taking its ….
Learning from Croydon – Digital Council of the Year 2017
Image by Dr Neil Clifton via Creative Commons
By Steven McGinty
In March, the London Borough of Croydon was named ….
Creating sustainability in health and social care
The question of the sustainability of funding for health and social care services has been in the spotlight recently. The Conservative Party manifesto contained proposals around making individuals pay for more of their social care costs, to deal with the “challenges of an ageing society”. ….
