London Health Infrastructure Review Articles

Methodology & Editorial Standards

Evaluating Health Information Sources: The Standards Behind This Review’s Citations

How this Review decides which sources to trust — primary data, disclosure, and quality checks — befo...

Defibrillator Readiness & Upkeep

Defibrillator Servicing and The Circuit: What Keeps a Public AED Rescue-Ready

Defibrillator servicing is a distinct job from siting one: pad and battery expiry, weekly checks, an...

Community Mental-Health Provision

How Community Mental Health Teams Work Across London’s Boroughs

How London’s CMHTs are structured borough by borough, who staffs them, and how referral into one act...

First-Response & Community Resuscitation

Basic Life Support Training: The Engine Behind London’s Community First Responder Schemes

How basic life support training equips volunteer Community First Responders and why bystander CPR re...

The 2014 Report Explained

The Ten Aspirations of Better Health for London: The 2014 Report’s Targets Explained

The 2014 Better Health for London report set out ten aspirations with specific numeric targets. Here...

Ten Years On

Moving Care Out of Hospitals: What a Decade of NHS Bed and A&E Data Shows

Better Health for London called for care to shift out of hospitals. A decade on, NHS bed and A&E fig...

Commissioning & ICB Strategy

Weighted Capitation: How NHS England Decides What Each London ICB Gets

How the weighted capitation formula moves NHS money from national budgets to London’s four ICBs, and...

Who Was the London Health Commission

The Lord Darzi Report Explained: What the London Health Commission Was Actually Mandated to Do

What the Mayor asked Lord Darzi’s commission to investigate, and why it was structured to stay indep...

Obesity & Metabolic Health

The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme: How Prevention Actually Works

How the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme identifies prediabetes and what its nine-month course of s...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest Explained

Sudden Cardiac Arrest vs Heart Attack: Why the Difference Decides Survival

Cardiac arrest and heart attack are not the same emergency. Understanding the difference explains wh...

Relieving A&E Pressure

Does NHS 111 Actually Keep People Out of A&E? What the Evidence Shows

NHS 111 was built to divert callers away from A&E. Over a decade of London and national evidence, th...

Defibrillators & AEDs Explained

Do You Need Training to Use a Public Defibrillator? What UK Law Actually Says

No, UK law does not require training to use a public-access AED. Here’s what the device, the SARAH A...