Local and Regional Implementation

The local and regional take-up of the Review recommendations has been impressive and encouraging. We are advising and assisting in many local and regional actions, strategies and interventions, and are pleased to discover more action happening without our involvement: the Review seems to have generated real momentum locally.

Current implementation activities by the Marmot Review Team include;

Dissemination activities in the UK

• To see a list of the past events we have participated in, please click here.
• To see a list of future events, please click here.
• To read articles and news coverage of our activities, please click here.
• To download our presentations or use the graphs from them, please click here.

Fuel Poverty Report

To build on and carry forward the recommendations of the Marmot Review, we have recently published the report 'Cold Homes and Health', which reviews the existing evidence of the direct and indirect health impacts suffered by those living in fuel poverty and cold housing.

To read more or download the report, please see the Cold Homes and Health page of the website.

Healthy Places, Healthy Lives

Support for the NHS Institute/ Department of Health programme working with early adopter sites and specifically seeks to address the recommendations of Sir Michael Marmot´s review of Health Inequalities post 2010. Click here for more information and here to download the leaflet.

Barts & the London NHS Trust - Health Promoting Hospitals Strategy.

Three major reviews in the last two years – Carol Black’s review of the health of Britain’s working age population, Working for a Healthier Tomorrow (2008), the Boorman Review of NHS Health & Well-being (2009) and Fair Society, Healthy Lives (2010) – have advocated a new approach to well-being through health strategies at work. The Marmot Review Team was commissioned by Barts and The London NHS Trust (BLT) to draw up a strategy for actions to improve the health and well-being of their workforce.To download the final strategy, co-authored by the Marmot Review Team and the BLT, please click here.

 The NHS is the largest employer in the country, so it is crucial that each Trust acts as a model employer and takes the lead in health promotion. This will only happen by first engaging staff and then engaging with the wider community. BLT is taking forward and leading the agenda as one of the first NHS Trusts to set out to implement the recent reviews’ recommendations.

Supporting NICE on guidelines for spatial planning

The Marmot Review Team has prepared a paper for The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on their Spatial Planning for Health Project. The aim of the paper is to present further analysis of evidence on health and the built environment, sustainable development and spatial planning which was outlined in the Marmot Review and associated evidence papers. 

The objective of the paper is to provide information and material that helps identify the opportunities for further integrating health considerations within the spatial planning process and to highlight resources for practitioners (architects, urban designers, planners, public health practitioners, NHS bodies and local authorities) working to implement the guidance.

The paper:

• Provides evidence about the relationships between health and spatial design, and the socio-economic gradient in environmental disadvantage.
• Outlines the Marmot Review policy recommendations for the built environment and the evidence and analysis behind these proposals.
• Proposes good design principles for promoting both physical and mental health and well-being within communities.
• Gives examples of best practice in addressing health inequalities through spatial planning and matrices to develop best practice interventions.
•  Includes a review of available resources and tools to assess the health and equity needs of an area and the impact of developments and regeneration projects on health equity (both pre- and post- implementation).

To read the full paper, please click here.

Please note, the guidance is now discontinued.

If you are involved in or know about any local or regional actions on health inequalities, please get in touch.