{"id":12006,"date":"2019-08-14T12:28:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T12:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/?post_type=blog_post&p=12006"},"modified":"2021-07-30T14:43:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:43:34","slug":"communities-taking-the-lead-in-health-through-space-time-power-and-a-good-brew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/news\/communities-taking-the-lead-in-health-through-space-time-power-and-a-good-brew\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities taking the lead in health through space, time, power and a good brew"},"content":{"rendered":"
Power to Change is helping to develop the role of community businesses in the health and care sector. Last month we supported Nesta\u2019s: Future of People Powered Health event, which focussed on reimagining leadership in health. Our Chief Executive, Vidhya Alakeson led a session on putting communities in the lead of health. Our Development Manager, Susie Finlayson reflects on the key insights from the session.<\/p>\n
We know that community businesses improve the health and wellbeing of their local communities. Year on year we have found that this is the most frequently stated impact area for community businesses in our annual survey of the sector<\/a> and a systematic review<\/a> on the impact of community business models on health outcomes supports this. But at the session we wanted to understand how and why this works, and why it is important that communities are in the lead of their own health.<\/p>\n