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A&E Preventable/avoidable STPs

Briefing: Emergency hospital admissions in England: which may be avoidable and how?

By The Health Foundation (2018)

This report looks at trends in emergency admissions over the past decade. It finds that one in three patients admitted to hospital in England as an emergency in 2015/16 had five or more health conditions. This is up from one in ten in 2006/7. It calculates the financial implications for the NHS in England and finds that the cost of emergency admissions in 2016/17 was £17 billion, up £5.5 billion in ten years.

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Healthy Settings Interventions Licensing Planning Preventable/avoidable

Sector-led improvement for public health, prevention and early intervention

By Local Government Association (2017)

The LGA is working with partners at Public Health England and the Association for Directors of Public Health to deliver sector-led improvement activity in 2017/18 for public health, prevention, and early intervention through the care and health improvement programme funded by the Department of Health.

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Health Protection (Emergency planning Preventable/avoidable seasonal mortality)

Cold weather plan launches to prepare for winter

By Public Health England (October 2013)

The plan aims to prevent avoidable harm to health, to help prevent excess winter deaths in England.

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