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CVD Health Promotion Licensing Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Planning Respiratory Disease

NHS Health Check implementation review and action plan

By Public Health England

This review argues that checking 40-74-year-olds’ blood pressure, cholesterol, weight and lifestyle could identify problems earlier and prevent 650 deaths, 1,600 heart attacks and 4,000 cases of diabetes a year. Before local authorities took over responsibility for commissioning health checks in April, there was considerable variation in how widely they were offered. PHE, which leads the NHS Health Check programme, has now launched a ten-point plan to help councils roll them out to 20 per cent of their eligible local population a year –15 million people by 2018/19.

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Care of the Elderly CVD Finance Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Settings Licensing Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Planning Respiratory Disease seasonal mortality) Value

More than medicine

By KPMG International (2013)

This report argues that ring-fencing budgets may not be enough to help the NHS deliver the support required by an ageing population, as unhealthy lifestyles and the number of patients suffering from multiple long-term conditions continue to take their toll on the UK’s healthcare services. It states that a complete overhaul of the healthcare operating model is needed if the NHS is to deliver better patient outcomes and care at lower costs. Key to this transformation, as pressure also increases to deliver higher quality care for less, will be the life sciences sector aligning its interests by partnering to share costs, data and risk to improve the value and effectiveness of the therapies offered to patients.

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Healthy Settings Licensing Planning

Public Health England: local health

By Public Health England (2013)

This online tool that presents data on populations in England, has been updated with new indicators and an improved interface. It enables users to see how the indicators vary across England at the level of upper or lower tier local authorities, as well as by wards using maps, summary charts and more detailed reports to show how local results compare with the national average for each indicator.

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change Healthy Settings Licensing Patient Satisfaction Planning

The NHS belongs to the people: a call to action

By NHS England (July 2013)

In this document, NHS England calls on the public, NHS staff and politicians to have an open and honest debate about the future shape of the NHS in order to meet rising demand, introduce new technology and meet the expectations of its patients. It sets out the challenges facing the NHS, including more people living longer with more complex conditions, increasing costs whilst funding remains flat and rising expectation of the quality of care. It argues that the NHS must change to meet these demands and make the most of new medicines and technology and that it will not contemplate reducing or charging for core services.

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