Cash incentives might help to change behaviour, MPs told

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Cash incentives might help to change behaviour, MPs told

Adrian O’Dowd

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Cash incentives to encourage people to change their behaviourmay help to end health inequalities in the United Kingdom, MPshave been told.

Cash incentives will be considered by the clinical watchdogthe National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE),the parliamentary health select committee was told last weekas part of its inquiry into health inequalities.

MPs asked whether cash incentives should be considered to encouragepeople to change their behaviour to improve health.

Mike Kelly, director of NICE’s centre for public healthexcellence, said, "We’ve got that in the pipeline as somethingthat NICE is going to look at to see the degree to which itwould be effective.

"Although we haven’t looked at the evidence systematicallyat this stage . . . the evidence coming from other countrieslooks quite promising in that regard. It’s certainly somethingthat deserves further detailed attention to see what we . . . [Full text of this article]

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