Preventing illness, promoting health: Delivering on the government’s 10-year vision
With the deadline for organisations to respond the government’s 10-year health plan now passed, RCP officers set out their thoughts on the three ‘shifts’ proposed in the plan: sickness to prevention, hospital to community, and analogue to digital. In this first piece, Dr Mumtaz Patel, acting as president of the RCP, reflects on the government’s consultation on its 10-year health plan and focuses on the sickness to prevention shift.