Healthy lives, healthy people: A public health workforce strategy

"The strategy sets out actions for various partners in the new public health system to support and develop the public health workforce. It will help embed public health capacity within the wider workforce to support delivery of the public health outcomes framework."

Healthy lives, healthy people: A public health workforce strategy
Department of Health, Health Education England and Public Health England
April 2016

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Rethinking the public health workforce

"The report highlights the ‘early adopters’ in the wider workforce. These are the occupations who are already engaged with the public’s health, are enthusiastic to do more and should be acknowledged for their part in prevention. Examples include Fire & Rescue Services, Health Trainers, Allied Health Professions (12 distinct professions who make up 6% of the NHS workforce), Community Pharmacy, and Housing Associations. These occupations equate to over three quarters of a million people."

Rethinking the public health workforce
Royal Society for Public Health
July 2015

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What's behind the A&E 'crisis'?

"This briefing, part of a series from the Nuffield Trust ahead of the General Election, examines up-to-date data and long-term trends with regard to urgent care in England; analyses common theories and explanations of recent problems; and summarises current thinking about the potential solutions."

Policy Briefing: What's behind the A&E 'crisis'?
I Blunt, N Edwards, L Merry
Nuffield Trust
March 2015

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Focus on: A&E attendances

"We explored a range of factors thought to be contributing to increased pressure on A&E in the English NHS and tested whether recent changes in these factors could explain the current pressures observed in the system."

QualityWatch: Focus on: A&E attendances: Why are patients waiting longer?
I Blunt
Nuffield Trust, The Health Foundation
July 2014

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Government response to the House of Commons Health Select Committee Report into Urgent and Emergency Services

"There is a pressing need for clearer information to be produced which can detail where urgent care cases present across the system and the case mix of urgent patient presentations; it is also important to monitor waiting times for urgent and emergency services in order to ensure that services are accessible to patients in urgent need of care."

Government response to the House of Commons Health Select Committee Report into Urgent and Emergency Services (Second Report of Session 2013-14)
Department of Health
October 2013

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