London Health Commission: Theme D: Mr Kit Malthouse
The London Health Commission is an independent inquiry established in September 2013 by the Mayor of London. The Commission is chaired by Professor the Lord Darzi and reports directly to the Mayor. The Commission is examining how London's health and healthcare can be improved for the benefit of the population.
As part of the Call for Evidence we held four successful evidence hearing sessions in public on 20 and 27 January 2014. These sessions featured a range of expert figures from the UK and abroad giving evidence to a panel of Commission members, chaired by Lord Darzi.
Evidence was given in four broad themes:
A - Improving the quality and integration of care
- Right Honourable Stephen Dorrell MP, Chair, Health Select Committee
- Dr Shelley Dolan, Chief Nurse, The Royal Marsden Hospital
- Dr Geraldine Walters, Director of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Professor Tony Rudd, Professor of Stroke Medicine, Consultant Stroke Physician, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust / King's College London
- Mr David Palmer, Chief Executive, MIND in Bexley
- Mr Daniel Cartwright, Chief Executive, MIND in Brent
- Ms Carol Fenton, General Manager, London, Anglia & South East region, Macmillan
- Professor Tom Lee, Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
- Dr Michelle Drage, Chief Executive, London-wide Local Medical Committees
- Dr Onkar Sahota, GP and Assembly Member for Ealing and Hillingdon
- Dr Nav Chana, Dean of General Practice and Community Based Education, London Deanery
- Ms Merav Dover, Chief Officer, Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care
- Mr Daniel Elkeles, Chief Officer, CWHHE Clinical Commissioning Groups Collaborative
B - Enabling high quality and integrated care delivery
- Ms Candace Imison, Deputy Director of Policy, King's Fund
- Mr Richard Blakeway, Deputy Mayor for Housing, Land and Property, Greater London Authority
- Mr Simon Holden, Chief Executive, NHS Property Services
- Mr Tony Griffiths, London Regional Director, NHS Property Services
- Mr Tim Kelsey, National Director of Patients and Information, NHS England
- Dr Julia Riley, Palliative Care Consultant at the Royal Marsden & Royal Brompton Palliative Care Service
- Dr Paul Wicks, Vice President of Innovation, Patientslikeme
- Professor Paul Corrigan, Independent Management Consultant
- Ms Emily Holzhausen, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Carers UK
- Mr Roy Lilley, Chair, People's Inquiry London
- Ms Susan Edgman-Levitan, Executive Director, Stoeckle Centre for Primary Care Innovation, Massachusetts
- Ms Catherine Davies, Executive Director of Cooperation and Competition, Monitor
- Mr George Fielding, Chair of Kidz Board, Whizz-kidz
C - Healthy lives and reducing health inequalities
- Mr Henry Dimbleby, Founder of Leon Restaurants
- Mr Gareth Jones, Vice President and General Manager, Fitbit
- Baroness Sally Greengross
- Ms Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founder and Director of Kids Company
- Ms Poppy Jaman, Chief Executive Officer, Mental Health First Aid England
- Ms Sheila Mitchell, Marketing Director, Public Health England
- Sir Peter Hendy, Commissioner, Transport for London
- Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, Chair in Health Policy, Imperial College London
- Dr Agis Tsouros, Director of Division, Policy and Governance for Health and Wellbeing, World Health Organisation
- Dr Jo Ivey Boufford, President, The New York Academy of Medicine
D - Health economy, research and education
- Dr Bina Rawal, Research, Medical and Innovation Director at The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
- Dr Eliot Forster, Interim Chief Executive, MedCity and CEO of Creabilis
- Dr Robert Winter, Managing Director, Eastern Academic Health Science Network
- Professor Gary Ford, Chief Executive, Oxford Academic Health Science Network
- Mr Kit Malthouse, Deputy Mayor for Business and Enterprise, Greater London Authority
- Ms Mairi Johnson, Executive Director, Healthbox Europe
- Professor Sir John Tooke, Vice Provost (Health) at University College London and Academic Director at UCL Partners
- Sir Richard Sykes, Chairman of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Full details of these sessions, including transcripts, are available on our website: london.gov.uk/london-health-commission
History Walk No 4 - Highbridge, Bishopsstoke Lane and Brambridge
COLDEN COMMON LOCAL HISTORY – Walk 4
Thursday 12 September - Walk from Highbridge (meet at Wardle Road), Bishopstoke Lane and Brambridge. Return to the community Centre via Upper Moors Road.
The River Itchen
Is a world renowned river, it’s clear waters are supplied by chalk aquifers under the Hampshire Downs. The clear waters are home to salmon, trout, grayling, minnows and pike. Some areas are managed by fishing clubs. The river is rich in wildlife – otters, water voles, kingfishers and the rate southern damsel fly. The river was improved for barge navigation in the early 19th century – there are 17 locks including Allbrook and Brambridge.
In 1914 the Francis gravel works at Highbridge were opened to provide gravel for Hazeley camp in Twyford. Excavation revealed an early flint factory with many pieces of “dressed” flint from Neolithic times. The Francis family sold the gravel works to Hall and company in 1943. During the Francis’s time the gravel was loaded in Foden steam wagons by hand, and the men had to find their own shovels and lost ‘wet time’!
Wardle Road via Lordswood to Bishopstoke Lane
Walk up Wardle Road, at the end of the lane bear slightly left, keeping on the main part of the lane.At the branch in the pathway by the 10 mile per hour sign, bear right.
Wardle Road has bungalows one side, with fields for grazing opposite. A footpath to Bishopstoke Woods has fine views of the River Itchen. Lordswood has some ancient woodland, and many of the older bungalows have been replaced by large houses.
At the top of the lane, by the T junction sign with a vehicle access sign underneath go straight on towards the Nook, Orchard Gate and Oakhill Cottage. Go over the style and across the field. Push your way through the hedge where there is a gap opposite the style. On reaching the road turn left. Stop at the road narrows signs on the double bend. The first house on the left hand side is Woodcroft Cottage which belongs to Cecily Sutton. At this point we turned into the garden but permission is needed. Otherwise carry on down Bishopstoke Lane to Church Land and pick up directions from there.
Bishopstoke Lane to Brambridge Lodge
Along the road are small fields for grazing horses and hay-making. The original Brambridge Lodge dates from the late 18th century. Several extensions and improvements in the 19th century included stables, a coach house, landscaping with many specimen trees, a walled garden (now part of Woodcroft Cottage) and a carriage drive. The house and gardens were sold and divided into two in the 1950s, after its owner, Mr Gibson Fleming moved to Winchester.
Hills Farm with its timber and brick structure, dates from the 16th, 17th centuries, and is a listed building.
Mr Phillip’s farm has an assortment of farm building, machinery and an old fairground organ which used to be played on New Year’s Day. On past Alderbury house, on the left, is a footpath across the field to Brambridge. The iron gates to the drive to Brambridge Lodge are still standing.
With permission we walked out of Woodcroft Cottage side gate and through the back gate of brambridge Lodge. Once through the gate we turned left on to the Carriage Drive walking down the gravel path, onto the un made lane and down to the lay by at the bottom of Church Lane. The stream on the side is the same Valley stream that we passed on our first walk
If walking down Bishopstoke lane, look for the footpath on the left which will bring you to the same place.
Chris Green Interview
This interview with former Liberal councillor, Chris Green was recorded for ‘Carousel’, a film which is part of a HLF-funded Herefordshire Life Through A Lens project by local media company, Catcher Media.
Following audience favourites ‘Stories from the Hop Yards’ and ‘Chewing the Cud’, the new film ‘Carousel’ delves deep into the Derek Evans photographic archive to bring you stories and interviews behind his photographs of the county, from the May Fair to Hereford United, from the Fownhope Heart of Oak Walk to jazz, from childhood to politics, and much more.
herefordshirelifethroughalens.org.uk
Each of the interviews conducted for the film will be made available in full for heritage purposes. The film and touring photographic exhibition will bring previously unseen work by local photographer Derek Evans and his studio out of the archives and into the community.
The archive is also being catalogued and thousands of images are being digitised by project volunteers and uploaded to herefordshirehistory.org.uk so that everyone can appreciate the work of The Derek Evans studio, and through it their own unique heritage.
Herefordshire Life Through A Lens is a Catcher Media project in partnership with Herefordshire Council’s Libraries, Archive and Collections, and Learning and Achievement Services.