Finding a place to call ‘home’: what more can be done to plug the rural housing gap?

Finding a place to call ‘home’: what more can be done to plug the rural housing gap?

Despite numerous consultations, announcements, funding packages, targets and interventions by successive Governments the housing gap remains – with the number of households [demand] outstripping the houses built [supply]. While rural places are often viewed as idyllic places to live, work and enjoy they face particular issues around affordability, accessibility and contain more second / holiday […]

Rural Dentistry

If oral health matters, how can we prevent rural residents pulling their teeth out?

Everyone experiences oral health problems at some stage of their life; and the mouth and oral cavity is central to people’s wellbeing and identity. While oral diseases are largely preventable, they often remain untreated and persist. With the need to improve oral health impacted by COVID-19 yet recognised as a major public health issue, what […]

Taking a longer-term view: do we need a new intergenerational contract?

Taking a longer-term view: do we need a new intergenerational contract?

Back in May 2018 the House of Lords appointed a Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision. The Committee, which published its report in April 2019, found that while the relationship between older and younger generations was defined by mutual support and affection; an ageing population, the global financial crisis and successive Government policies had […]

Cable

Are rural areas falling through the net?

The digital divide is the gap between people who have full access to digital technologies and those who do not. COVID-19 has underlined the importance of access to and comfort with technology.  Throughout the pandemic the internet and digital devices have played a vital role in enabling people to access services, attend medical appointments, use […]

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