| Delivery system areas |
Examples of proposals relevant to Wanless |
| Evidence and information | — Review of existing R&D strategy for public health
— Coordination of research funding partners for new public health research initiative
— Public health research consortium
— National Prevention Research Initiative focusing on obesity, cancer, CHD, and diabetes
— National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to strengthen economic appraisal of public health interventions
— Innovations Fund to provide real-time evaluation and faster learning from new approaches
— Health Information and Intelligence Task Force
— Public Health Observatories to help local agencies to fill information gaps
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| Workforce capacity and capability | — New strategy to:
— ensure all NHS staff have relevant skills
— give skills to community-based NHS health trainers
— equip the wider public health workforce
— ensure public health practitioners have the skills for improving health in communities
— expand public health specialist capacity
— enhance strategic leadership in the NHS and partner organisations
— Coordination of strategy by Health Improvement Workforce Steering Group
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| Systems for local delivery | — Local authorities' role in improving health:
— Communities for Health initiative
— local area agreement pilots
— joint LA/PCT planning tool
— Safer and Stronger Communities initiatives
— local authority agreement on PCT targets
— A health-promoting NHS:
— integrated prevention framework across NSFs
— strategy for pharmaceutical public health
— NHS health trainers
— action on physical activity, smoking, obesity, and sexual health
— smoke-free NHS
— NHS as healthy employer
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DoH and other central accountabilities
| — Health in regulatory impact assessment for all major policies
— Cabinet sub-committee to oversee implementation
— Six-monthly reports on key indicators
— Alignment of performance management systems
— Strategy for engaging the public in their own health
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