Professor Stephen Peckham joins other NIHR Senior Investigators in calling for a truly integrated public health function. The authors reflect on what direction public health should be taking in the UK, and urge current politicians to learn from the past. How did we get to a position of fragmented and dysfunctional systems for health and social care?
‘We have some differing views on the place of public health, but all agree that “function”—improving population health and wellbeing, reducing inequalities, and integrating community and health and social care services—should drive structure. And we all agree that public health is reaping what was sown in earlier decades’.
Read the entire blog in bmj opinion here >
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