Equipping a healthier capital
Policy becomes care in physical places. The Review examines the four care settings where equipment and infrastructure most directly decide whether Londoners get the right care, in the right place — and what delivering Better Health for London requires of each today.
The four care settings we examine
Each is a real-world delivery environment with its own kit, its own constraints, and its own contribution to a healthier city.
Primary Care
Equipping London's GP surgeries and community clinics — examination kit, point-of-care diagnostics, the vaccination cold chain, and accessible, inclusive design.
ReadUrgent Care
The kit behind urgent treatment centres and same-day access that keeps people out of A&E — triage, minor-injuries, and diagnostics.
ReadPrevention
Population-health monitoring and screening — air quality, cardiovascular and metabolic screening, and smoking-cessation at city scale.
ReadCommunity Care
Care delivered closer to home — remote monitoring, community-nursing equipment, assistive technology, and mobile and outreach outfitting.
ReadFrom recommendation to real estate and clinical kit
The Better Health for London recommendations — more responsive primary care, stronger community and urgent care, and prevention at scale — all rest on something physical. They require buildings that are fit for purpose and equipment that works on the ground, in 32 boroughs with very different starting points.
The credible bridge from health policy to health delivery is therefore implementation: what the recommendations actually need, in kit and capacity, to reach every Londoner. That is the question the Review keeps asking, setting by setting.
Across all four settings
Closing the borough gap — where capacity and kit diverge across London
The same recommendation lands very differently in a well-equipped borough than in an under-served one.
Integrating health and social care — the equipment backbone
What care-closer-to-home requires in remote monitoring and community kit.