Life Expectancy: Disadvantaged

(asked on 20th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Government's policies of the conclusion in Public Health England’s report entitled A review of recent trends in mortality in England, that those who have been most affected by the change in trend in mortality are those with the least resources, those living in deprived decile areas, which could indicate a role for government spending.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 28th March 2019

Preventing ill health is the best way to improve life expectancy and our ambition is to give everyone five more healthy, independent years of life by 2035 whilst narrowing the gap between the experience of the richest and poorest. We are already taking action to reduce inequalities in smoking, child obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and to improve uptake of cancer screening. Later this year we will publish a Prevention Green Paper which will set out cross-Government plans for prevention in greater detail.

The NHS Long Term Plan sets out new, funded, action the NHS will take to strengthen its contribution to prevention and health inequalities.

NHS England will base its five-year funding allocations to local areas on more accurate assessment of health inequalities and unmet need. As a condition of receiving Long Term Plan funding, all major national programmes and every local area across England will be required to set out specific measurable goals and mechanisms by which they will contribute to narrowing health inequalities over the next five and 10 years.

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