As climate change increasingly reshapes how we live, age and stay healthy, we need to understand how this will affect older people now and in the future; and learn how older people can support their … Read more...
Taking your first steps as a community changemaker can be exciting and rewarding – but also daunting and confusing! Toolkits rarely share the real life details of how other people have got started, or offer … Read more...
In the last two and a half years the Green and Healthy Frome (GHF) team has connected with around 150 organisations, campaigns and community members reaching over 3,000 individuals outside our town to share ideas … Read more...
In this Intelligent Health interview – ‘Neighbourhood Health and the future of our communities’ wellbeing, Dr Helen Kingston explains how Frome Medical Practice has spent 15 years blending traditional clinical care with community-based support to … Read more...
On a tour of Frome Medical Practice I meet a Japanese data scientist here to learn how the NHS can be more sustainable. Her bilingual 20-month-old wrinkles her nose, smiles, tells me she’s learned something … Read more...
What does the Hippocratic Oath – one of the oldest and most enduring foundations of medical ethics, still echoed in the pledges many doctors take today – mean by “do no harm” when the systems … Read more...
The climate crisis will be resolved through governance, rather than government. Many researchers argue the need for non-centralised measures and interconnected networks beyond the state to tackle a global problem which transcends state boundaries. There … Read more...
There are moments when a town quietly shows you what it’s capable of. The Green & Healthy 2025 Conference felt like one of those moments – not because of any single announcement or headline, but … Read more...
When the world feels heavy – the headlines relentless, the climate crisis urgent, the pace of life dizzying – it’s never been easier to slip into a quiet kind of despair. Yet in towns like … Read more...
What if action on climate is also the best way to improve our health? That’s the central question behind the Green and Healthy Frome 2025 Conference, taking place on Monday 3rd November 2025 at Wesley … Read more...