Welcome to Health England

Welcome to HealthEngland.org, the website for Health England: a national reference group for health and wellbeing.  Health England has a remit to take forward the recommendations in the White Paper 'Our health, our care, our say : a new direction for community services.

The following extracts are from the White Paper:

Paragraph 2.87:  The accessibility and use of the evidence base for interventions that support health and well-being will be overseen through a new National Reference Group for Health and Wellbeing.

Paragraph 6.34:   At present, the definition and measurement of spend on prevention are not easy to apply. Spend on prevention and spend on public health should be separated more clearly. International and UK definitions of preventative and public health spend are not aligned, and issues like service quality are not adequately captured. So we will:

• establish an expert group to develop robust definitions and measures of preventative health spending

• implement these recommendations, to ensure that we have good data on preventative spend, for both PCT and international comparisons;

• use these data, and evidence on the prevention outcomes for the UK, to look at establishing a 10-year ambition for preventative  spending, based on a comparison with other OECD countries. 

Website last updated:  May 2008