NHS Future Forum workstream leads Ash Soni and Vicky Bailey will be live online from 11.45am on Thursday 24 November, to answer your questions about public health and the NHS.
The Government has asked the NHS Future Forum to continue its conversations with patients, service users and professionals to provide independent advice on four important themes, including public health.
The Forum’s final report to Government will be published in December.
Ash and Vicky are keen to hear your comments on these specific questions:
- How do we make sure that improving the public’s health remains at the heart of the NHS?
- What more should the NHS do to improve the health and wellbeing of its
own staff? - How can we ensure that the public’s health remains at the heart of the NHS?
- What role could NHS and health and care professionals effectively play in systematically delivering improved population health outcomes, including
tackling inequalities? - What are the mechanisms that commissioners, providers and the wider system could use to help support professionals in improving outcomes?
- How can we ensure that the NHS’s role in the public’s health aligns with the roles of Public Health England and local authorities?
- How can the NHS contribute to people’s health and wellbeing in its role as a
large employer?
You can join the webchat below from 11.45 on Thursday 24 November and set a reminder now by entering your email address in the box provided.
If you cannot join the webchat live but would like to post a question in advance, please leave a comment at the bottom of this page.
why does one consultant tell you one thing and another something else
my sister in law, god rest her soul once told me once you get to seventy
doctors dont want to know. you work all your life pay all your dues then cast aside, how right she was
Sorry I cannot make the webchat as I at our Board meeting. In Stockport we believe that for public health to be at the heart of the NHS and for NHS health care professionals to systematically deliver improved population health outcomes, including tackling inequalities and prevention of ill health, public health needs to be integral to Clinical Commissioning Groups. We have been assuming this model in the development of our CCG and would be happy to share our experiences.
Shame this wasn’t circulated consistently to Public Health Professionals working in the NHS so we could join in.
It almost looks like you didn’t want to hear our opinion.
(and yes, I’m sure you did send it to some chief execs, but clearly no consistent effort to spread message to Public Health Community)
Sorry missed live chat. If you look at yesterdays guardian there are many examples in the public sector awards of good practice, for example the complexneeds award went to Tukes part of Navigo for its service user employment scheme which enables mh users to be involved in the active running of their own wards including acute awards, the scheme is now being extended to include those with physical and learning disabilties. ‘ we have found a simple recipe of giving them a role and making them feel good about themselves can do so much more for them’ and for the NHS and its staff morale. Intiatives like this help break down barriers, tackle inequalities through inclusion as opposed to exclusion:people helping each other, making work easier and more rewarding for those who like to treat patients with the upmost of respect as opposed to allowing disrespect to multiply through the general approach which is to get rid of patients/ staff especially those that are outspoken /unhappy or considered not worthwhile.Staff members should be trained in why a humanistic and caring approach works instead of treating patients as useless , and a burgeoning resource burden, who they have to get rid of,like mounting rubbish.
as more than 50% of our public health staff have allready been made redundant I doubt it will remain at the heart of the NHS which will focus on treatment rather than prevention. Especially when skilled staff have left, public health is in a terrbile state due to the cuts and so called reforms. Over the next 18 months of so called transition we won’t be doing much as we have no money, no idea who will commission what and no clear direction.
Why can’t the NHS be run along the lines of the BBC. The BBC is a public body, it receives the bulk of it’s funding from the License Fee (Tax). But it does sell it services such as programmes, R&D and broadcasting services outside of the UK and receives revenue from it. Why can’t the NHS be structured and sell it’s R&D, pharmaceuticals and medical expertise to the wider world?
The NHS is already structured that way. For years, NHS foundation trusts have been able to generate extra income by providing private health care. It has been proposed that the present restrictions on this kind of activity be removed, but that will not require any structural change.
Whether the BBC is a good model is another matter. The BBC enjoys plenty of controversy of its own around its funding, commercial activity, quality of service and trustworthiness.