The Marmot Place Programme

Working together with local partners.

Where people are born, live, grow, work and get older has the biggest influence on health and health inequalities.

We’ve partnered with the UCL Institute of Health Equity to become a Marmot Place. It means we’ve committed to tackle health inequalities and improve health fairness in Oxfordshire by working together with local partners across the system. This includes local authorities, communities, public services, businesses and voluntary sector organisations. 

About the programme

The programme aims to create a fairer and healthier Oxfordshire and will focus on three of the eight Marmot Principles:

  • give every child the best start in life
  • create fair employment and good work for all
  • ensure a healthy standard of living for all

Other areas of work will include:

  • Understanding rural inequalities in Oxfordshire beyond the ten most deprived wards.
  • Supporting primary care networks by developing dedicated resources they can use to improve areas affecting their patients' health.
  • Developing projects focusing on policy research through the Local Policy Lab, a new alliance between the University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes University and Oxfordshire County Council. This research will directly link back to the Marmot Place principles.

It's not about stopping what we're already doing, but evaluating and building on existing work, measuring and tackling rural inequality, and utilising research to find innovative solutions.

Keeping up to date

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