{"id":29682,"date":"2021-04-13T16:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=29682"},"modified":"2021-04-12T18:37:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:37:02","slug":"englands-new-office-for-health-promotion-to-drive-improvement-of-nations-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=29682","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s new Office for Health Promotion: \u2018to drive improvement of nation\u2019s health\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Office_Health_Promotion_Open_Government_Licence_v3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29683\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Office_Health_Promotion_Open_Government_Licence_v3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>The new Office for Health Promotion will lead national efforts to improve and level up the health of the nation.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 systematically tackle the top preventable risk factors causing death and ill health in the UK\u2026<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 By joining up care, this will level up inequalities\u2026<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>New Office for Health Promotion will lead national efforts to improve and level up the public\u2019s health<\/li>\n<li>It will help ministers design and operationalise a step change in public health policy<\/li>\n<li>New approach will see action across government to improve the nation\u2019s health by tackling obesity, improving mental health and promoting physical activity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new Office for Health Promotion will lead national efforts to improve and level up the health of the nation by tackling obesity, improving mental health and promoting physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Office will recruit an expert lead who will report jointly into the Health Secretary and the Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty. The Office\u2019s remit will be to systematically tackle the top preventable risk factors causing death and ill health in the UK, by designing, implementing and tracking delivery policy across government. It will bring together a range of skills to lead a new era of public health polices, leveraging modern digital tools, data and actuarial science and delivery experts.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for Health Promotion will sit within the Department of Health and Social Care (<abbr title=\"Department of Health and Social Care\">DHSC<\/abbr>), and will lead work across government to promote good health and prevent illness which shortens lives and costs the NHS billions every year, building on the work of Public Health England.<\/p>\n<p>It will enable more joined-up, sustained action between national and local government, the NHS and cross-government, where much of the wider determinants of health sit.<\/p>\n<p>A large proportion of people\u2019s health outcomes (around 80%) are not related to the healthcare they receive but due to wider preventable risk factors (such as diet, smoking, exercise). The new Office will help inform a new cross-government agenda which will look to track these wider determinants of health and implement policies in other departments where appropriate. This Office and approach will be modelled on successful methods to this agenda internationally, such as in Singapore, which has a Health Promotion Board, and has pioneered new digital public health schemes, such as their \u2018National Steps Challenge\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Office will address and tackle important public health issues, including obesity and nutrition, mental health across all ages, physical activity, sexual health, alcohol and tobacco, amongst other areas.<\/p>\n<p>As England cautiously eases restrictions over the coming months, preventing the onset of avoidable physical and mental illness and protecting the nation\u2019s health will be the top priority for this government. From today, outdoor organised sport resumes as part of the roadmap, and the government is urging people to get outside and get active to help improve their health and prevent some illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The new office will recruit expert leadership, ensuring it is informed by high-quality data and evidence to support decision-making and delivery to improve health across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The new Office will combine Public Health England\u2019s health improvement expertise with existing\u00a0<abbr title=\"Department of Health and Social Care\">DHSC<\/abbr> health policy capabilities, in order to promote and deliver better health to communities nationwide. By combining and enhancing these functions, the Office will play a vital role in helping the public lead healthier lives&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">&#8220;&#8230;.The Office for Health Promotion will work across both national and local government as well as with the NHS, academia, the third sector, scientists, researchers and industry to develop evidence informed policies&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government will also be strengthening the national focus and capability of NHS England and the focus of local health partners on supporting better health, as part of a drive to put better population health front and centre for the whole health and care system.<\/p>\n<p>This forms a key part of the planned Health and Care White Paper, with integrated care systems bringing together the collective resources and strengths of the local system, the NHS, local authorities, the voluntary sector and others to improve the health of their area.<\/p>\n<p>By joining up care, this will level up inequalities across the country and address the many determinants of health and wellbeing, to prevent or intervene early in ill health.<\/p>\n<p>Important progress has been made in recent decades enabling people to live longer, healthier lives, but evidence shows that, on average, 20% of people\u2019s lives are spent in poor health.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s announcement follows the establishment of the new UK Health Security Agency (<abbr title=\"UK Health Security Agency\">UKHSA<\/abbr>), set to launch in April. With the\u00a0<abbr title=\"UK Health Security Agency\">UKHSA<\/abbr>\u00a0leading on health security, the Office for Health Promotion will focus on health improvement, leading at a national level to exert influence across the health and care system and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for Health Promotion will be established by the autumn. The government will set out more detail on plans and ambitions for improving the public\u2019s health later this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Background information<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/564274\/work-health-and-disability-green-paper-background-information-and-methodology.pdf\">Work, Health and Disability Green Paper Data, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/health-profile-for-england-2018\/chapter-1-population-change-and-trends-in-life-expectancy\">PHE The Health Profile for England 2018: Chapter 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-office-for-health-promotion-to-drive-improvement-of-nations-health?mc_cid=076a949a3c&amp;mc_eid=1807d8e44b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Office for Health Promotion will lead national efforts to improve and level up the health of the nation. image: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29684,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29682\/revisions\/29684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}