NHS-backed health technology @khpventures | @HFLabour Councillor for Grove ward

London
Joined April 2009
Pleased to present the best tech start-up award to @CausaLens at tonight’s #hfbrill4biz19 @LBHF Congratulations! 🍾🥂✨
At a break out session on town centres @CapitalWestLdn. Marie Hickey from @savills shows how people’s spending habits have hugely shifted recently towards ‘experience’ buys. V interesting — particularly the 67% rise in spending on childcare.
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At the @CapitalWestLdn Growth Summit. @StephenCowan talks about @imperialcollege and their #STEM hub in White City as London’s ‘path into the middle of the 21st century’ + future of economy. Read our @LBHF joint #industrialstrategy with them here: lbhf.gov.uk/sites/default/fi…
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Fulham — if you’re not here already then get yourself down to the North End Road Autumn Festival. Amazing international food stalls, art and local start ups #NrthEndRdMrkt
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Pleased to be at a social prescribing workshop for London today. Dr Tom Coffey, the Mayor’s senior health advisor, opens by acknowledging ‘the amazing trajectory of social prescribing in the last two years from the periphery to the centre stage’ @HealthyLDN @LDN_gov
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‘If it’s not for all of us, it’s not for us.’ What a brilliant mantra from the Mayor of Pittsburgh @billpeduto relayed by Prof Kenneth Thompson @PittTweet and in tune with the values of tackling health inequalities discussed today at @TheKingsFund #urbanhealth conference
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On cities and mental health, Prof Kenneth Thompson @PittTweet talks about @muralarts initiative in Philadelphia: murals in public art in as a public health intervention and as a way to break stigma and explore feelings in the community #urbanhealth
‘The attitudes towards business are schizophrenic (in the public sector): there are some who say you shouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole and yet they are key assets in our communities’, says @ProfKevinFenton #UrbanHealth
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