Health Management and Policy Alert

The health of the nation: a strategy for healthier longer lives

All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity - 
This report aims to help set the UK on a clear path to achieve the government's goal "for everyone to have five extra years of healthy, independent life by 2035." It proposes policy and cross-sector collaboration to narrow the life expectancy gap between the richest and poorest.

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Advancing population health management

NHS Clinical Commissioners - 

Population health management (PHM) – the use of data to identify specific groups within a population that may have similar characteristics and similar needs, and develop targeted interventions to meet those needs – was a notable theme of the NHS Long Term Plan. But it’s something that clinical commissioners have been doing for some time. This report brings together PHM stories from ten different areas of England – led by clinical commissioners – to demonstrate the progress that has been already been made in advancing this approach to healthcare, and what more will need to be done.

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Equality in Public Health England: how we met the public sector equality duty in 2019

Public Health England -
The equality duty is supported by two specific duties which require public bodies such as Public Health England (PHE) to: publish information to show their compliance with the equality duty; and set and publish equality objectives at least every four years. These reports set out how PHE responded to meeting these two specific duties.

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• Public Health England - publications

What the quality of work means for our health

Health Foundation - 

Social, economic, commercial and environmental conditions are the strongest determinants of people’s health. This includes people’s access to homes that are safe, stable and warm; the availability of an adequate financial safety net; access to healthy, affordable food; and the quality of their work. This long read presents new analysis exploring changes in one of these wider determinants of health: the labour market. This includes the quantity and quality of employment over the last ten years, the implications of these changes for health, and what they mean for public policy. It is the first in a series addressing changes in the wider determinants of health and what they mean for health inequalities.

• Long read
• Press release

Violence in London: what we know and how to respond

Behavioural Insights Team - 

This report (commissioned by the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit) brings together existing research and analysis to present an assessment of what is known about violence in London, highlight what is not known and sets out recommendations for how the VRU and partners should respond.

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Analysis of statutory reviews of homicides and violent incidents

Social Care Institute for Excellence - 

This report summarises findings from research commissioned by the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) with the aim of mapping and understanding violence in London. The VRU was established by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan in September 2018. It brings together specialists from health, police, local government, probation and community organisations to tackle violent crime and its underlying cause.

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The state of the nation: sexually transmitted infections in England

Terrence Higgins Trust -
This report, written with BASHH, calls for the Government to implement a new sexual health strategy, including the need for immediate steps to be taken on the threat of drug resistant STIs. The report shows that someone is diagnosed with an STI every 70 seconds.

• Report
• Terrence Higgins Trust - press release

Sustainability in Public Health England: 2019

Public Health England -
This report outlines the sustainable development activities in Public Health England. It contains an analysis of the organisation's carbon footprint – particularly in relation to: the use of energy and water; the production and management of waste; and business travel undertaken. It also highlights work on other aspects of sustainability, such as health and wellbeing and the health effects of climate change.

• Report
• Public Health England - publications

The multi-agency response to child sexual abuse in the family environment

Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) - 

A joint targeted area inspections of ‘the multi-agency response to child sexual abuse in the family environment’ took place between September 2018 and May 2019. Ofsted, together with the Care Quality Commission, HMI Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services and HMI Probation, examined how well children’s social care, health professionals, youth offending services, the police and probation officers are working together in a local area to help and protect children. This report calls on professionals to give sexual abuse a higher priority in local areas, through improved training and awareness-raising of the problem. More needs to be done to prevent the sexual abuse of children in the family environment and when it does happen, agencies must work better to protect and support victims and families.

• Report
• Press release

Building resilience: how local partnerships are supporting children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing

Local Government Association - 

Too many children and young people nationally do not receive the support they need to improve their mental health and wellbeing. The purpose of this research, commissioned from Isos Partnership, is to explore some of the factors which are contributing to this nationally challenging context, and to develop an evidence base for how local government and its partners can work most effectively together to deliver a coherent and joined-up offer of support for children and young people’s mental health.

• Report
• Press release