Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is excited to announce a new partnership with North Star Transition to reconnect health with food and nature. This is part of a long-term project called The Wales Transition Lab, which regards multi-sectoral partnership as fundamental to the primary task of recreating a liveable planet. We will work to integrate food and nature into treatment pathways as part of a preventative approach to healthcare and contribute to ambitions to promote healthy land, air and water to support community, nature and carbon sequestration; to optimise the Welsh food system for wellbeing, community and nature; and to ensure that the hidden voices of nature and future generations are included in decision-making
The mission to reconnect food, health, and nature is central to achieving our strategic objectives – most notably of avoiding harm, waste, and variation and supporting people to choose healthy behaviours; fundamental to our response to climate change; and at the heart of our efforts to establish more sustainable approaches to healthcare. This is why the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CVUHB) and North Star Transition (NST) have signed a memorandum of understanding to address some of the Nation’s most intractable health challenges. We are developing a new way of learning and working together to create opportunities to rebuild community, reconnect with ecological systems, and to instigate new social, cultural, and economic approaches to health and care.
The DHI and NST both regard multi-sectoral partnership as fundamental to the primary task of recreating a liveable planet. Whilst the DHI is focused on accelerating change within the health system and its partners, NST offers a platform to stakeholders from across Wales to drive wellbeing. The Wales Transition Lab (“WTL”) was created by NST to develop a new approach to address systemic challenges through radical reframing and holistic collaboration. They work in partnership with University College London’s Climate Action Unit in deep domain expertise on climate issues, and in the deployment of new neuroscience-based methods of facilitating engagement between disconnected parts of the system.
We will work to integrate food and nature into treatment pathways as part of a preventative approach to healthcare. Alongside this, we will contribute to ambitions to promote healthy land, air and water to support community, nature and carbon sequestration; to optimise the Welsh food system for wellbeing, community and nature; and to ensure that the hidden voices of nature and future generations are included in decision-making.
