Following previous success, RSPH and ITN Productions are producing a news and current affairs-style programme bringing to life current challenges and opportunities when it comes to improving and protecting the public’s health.

A Place for the Public’s Health will provide a unique platform to stimulate the debate around public health. The programme will explore a range of different issues, with a focus on the places where we live, work and play.

By exploring different communities, venues and locations the programme will showcase how much places have an impact on our health and wellbeing, and how this impact can be shaped for the better. The programme will showcase best practice, as well as examining inequalities and how different socio-economic backgrounds have an impact on health outcomes.  

As well as physical places, the programme will delve into the virtual world too. There is often bad press around the negative effects of social media, but it can also be a beneficial source of social connection and emotional support.


A Place for the Public’s Health will also look at how health professionals, local and national government, the voluntary sector and communities are working to improve health and wellbeing in different places across the UK.

Drawing upon ITN’s 60 year heritage and expertise in storytelling, the news-style piece will be anchored by Natasha Kaplinsky to combine key interviews and reports with sponsored editorial profiles from leading organisations.

A Place for the Public’s Health will launch at the RSPH Awards 2018 on 18 October at the East Wintergarden in London. The programme will form part of an extensive communications campaign featuring RSPH members, industry partners, government partners, as well as relevant journalists, writers and bloggers.

Shirley Cramer, Chief Executive, RSPH, said: “The places where we live, work and play have a profound impact on our health and wellbeing, an impact that can vary greatly depending on where we are born and raised, even within the UK. We are delighted to be working with ITN Productions once again to shine a light on the impact places have on the public’s health, and to showcase the great range of inspiring public health work going on across the nation – to shape those places for the better, and make use of them to improve health outcomes for everyone.”

Simon Shelley, Head of Industry News, ITN Productions, said: “ITN Productions is delighted to continue its work with RSPH, to explore the vital need to protect and improve the public’s health. We are excited to bring to life the ways in which where we live and work have such a strong impact on our health and wellbeing. We hope that organisations, professionals and the public will engage with the content as a means of sharing knowledge and raising awareness of issues and solutions.”

For more information, or to participate in the programme, please contact Charles Harrison, Programme Director at ITN Productions, by email or call 020 7430 4266.