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The plans to create a healthy nation are centred on a whole new approach, which focuses on behaviour change; and which goes beyond constraining the supply of illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco, and begins to understand and influence the drivers of demand.
The framework of empowerment includes:
A new responsibility deal between government and business built on shared social responsibility and not state regulation
A new ring-fenced public health budget
A new 'Health Premium' to target public health resources towards the areas with the poorest health
Clear outcomes and measures to judge progress alongside NHS and social care outcomes
An enhanced role for Public Health Directors so they have the resources and authority to improve the health of their communities
A new Cabinet Sub-Committee on Public Health, chaired by the Health Secretary, to tackle the drivers of demand on the NHS.
A White Paper, to be published later this year, will set out in more detail how the Public Health Service will work.
what do you think?
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Improvement in public health and lifestyle I have no doubt will follow naturally when the issues related to sustainable employment are addressed and people can again feel like worthwhile individuals who are rewarded for their skills and knowledge
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This is excellent news. There are many strategies already in place recommending health targets and how to achieve them. This new approach should help to put words into action! Well done
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The services that should not be touched but improved by government are health, school, fire, ambulances, military. In the health sector, these are the things you need to cut down on. Everyone coming from USA gets free health in this country that should not be the case, we pay insurance when we go
to USA, they should do the same here. Stop all practice/ward managers, let them look for work in the private sector. Cut down GP pay because they do less job than their colleague in hospitals. Increase nurses pay and role. Stop translation services if people can not speak English they should not come to this country and cost us fortune for translation services.This
are the things that are costing the NHS and they should stop now. Why do nurses need to suffer every time there need to be cuts from NHS, every government target the nurses. Nurses deserve better all the way. Now you have your answers do something about it
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This is not a new concept! We have been working in this way for years. Yes there is always room for improvement, but another White Paper? How many are we up to now and at what cost? Perhaps the Health Secretary needs to ask those of us working in the field, what we are already doing before spending even more public money on what is already being carried out. This speech suggests that the Health Secretary hasn't got a clue what is already occurring
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