The Good Gym was asked to present the project to  an audience of South East Coast NHS improvement leads by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.  The event aimed to inspire and provoke innovative solutions to the problem of the aging population by using design techniques and thinking outside existing service delivery models.  Exciting ideas generated on the day ranged from working with supermarkets to offer bespoke menus to help those with specific dietary needs eat well to supporting the development of allotments and lunch clubs.  I gave a presentation telling the story of the development of the Good Gym and we had an overwhelmingly positive response; participants gave us a lot of positive feedback for the project and suggested many possible ways of connecting it into the NHS.  I hope the the model of the good gym, distributed approaches to delivering the  important social aspect of healthcare, will help to sporn other similar projects from within the NHS.   Next week  I will be meeting with an NHS representative from Tower Hamlets next week and hope to begin a discussion of how the relationship can be formalised.

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