The government’s maȷor conditions strategy must look beyond the NHS

Scarlett McNally, 23 SeptemberMcNally is right, the new strategic framework for major conditions accurately details our current burden of ill health and some of our future major public health challenges.1 We also agree that the solutions in the framework are too narrowly focused on the NHS rather than targeting other settings where the main drivers for health improvement can be found. The authors of the framework have not learnt the lessons of the past.23In 1992 the Conservative government produced The health of the nation, the first public health strategy for England, which was initially warmly welcomed.4 Evaluation indicated that it was seen principally as an NHS strategy, however, and lacked wider ownership.5 Besides design flaws, past health strategies have been criticised on several grounds including being high on rhetoric and low on status, not having adequate resources, and putting too much emphasis on individual lifestyle factors.23The major conditions framework lists…
Read Original Article: The government’s maȷor conditions strategy must look beyond the NHS »