The Social Shapla group at Creative Health Camden shows how creativity can build trust, confidence, and belonging – transforming a health centre into a place of warmth and welcome.

Welcoming Lower Clapton General Practice to the Sage Practice Network

We’re delighted to welcome Lower Clapton General Practice as one of the first practices to join our Sage Practice Network since launching the website last week.

When we were designing the Sage emblem, we wanted more than a logo. We wanted a picture that could carry a story – with characters, patterns and symbols that reach us in ways beyond words. Each element was chosen carefully, but also with a sense of play. Health and care are serious matters, but if we can’t laugh along the way, we risk missing something vital.

“Sometimes coherence can take you by surprise.”
In this reflection, Jim explores what happens when science, intuition, and human connection meet — through the lens of ecology, complexity theory and a flourishing WhatsApp group of healthcare, allied professionals and citizens. From the relational wisdom of river volunteers to the need for mystery and meaning in medicine, this piece is a call to honour the life between the metrics.

Food is more than fuel. It is deeply relational - connecting us to our environment, our communities, and even to the unseen worlds within us. The simple act of eating ties us to the soil, to the hands that grew and prepared our food, and to the histories and traditions carried in each meal. Yet, modern medicine often isolates nutrition as a biochemical equation, reducing food to calories and macronutrients, stripping away its social, cultural, and ecological dimensions.

It started with a conversation. No, several conversations. Around kitchen tables, in the corridors of clinics, at the edges- of streets, of parks, woodlands, heathlands and on the shores of rivers. Conversations between people who care- about health, about healing, and not just for individuals, but for communities, ecosystems, and the world beyond human reach.

Sage Elders: an imaginary interview with Professor Abraham Verghese.

Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor and Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a best-selling author and a physician with a reputation for his focus on healing in an era where technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine.