Our Vision

Care City is an innovation centre for healthy ageing and regeneration. We work as an innovation partner to East London’s health and care system. Everything we do is about improving health and the determinants of health.

Our strategic objectives

Research

We lead, host and co-ordinate research of local benefit and national significance

Innovation

To stimulate continuous improvement and innovation across the local health and social care system.

Education

To increase resilience across the system’s workforce by inspiring new entrants, facilitating life-long learning and generating future leaders.

Regeneration

To ensure our programmes of work bring investment and opportunity to regenerate our Boroughs of Barking, Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge & Waltham Forest.

Our principles

Healthy ageing

We care about connecting communities across divides to improve lives & developing health, wellbeing, lifeskills and building social capital in NEL. 

Healthy communities

We believe co-design with our stakeholders and communities is important to our future.

Well-being and control

We believe in a person-centred, asset based approach to health service design.

Productive care

We continuously look for new ways to improve health & care and the partnerships that can help us do it.

System change

We want to support the creation of resilient and happy communities in East London.

Transformation

We want to influence across sectors and be an effective partnership organisation.