Preventive model of health care needed, says King's Fund

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7441.664-e

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Debashis Singh

London

UK government health policy will have little impact unless it includes practical measures to build a health system that promotes health rather than just caring for people when they become ill.

That is the warning from the independent charity the King's Fund, in a discussion paper by Anna Coote marking the launch of the fund's new Putting Health First programme.

Rather than ignore the NHS, the government should design and build a health system that promotes health and reduces health inequalities, it says.

The paper highlights rises in the prevalence of obesity, which it says …