As the NHS lurches from crisis to crisis, the UK’s approach to health needs radical rethinking to create a healthy and health-creating society. Just as the founding of the NHS in 1948 was a great national movement creating a health service for everyone, today all sectors of society — from employers, teachers, designers, manufacturers, as well as citizens, community groups and government — need to come together to improve the health of the nation.
The call to action comes from a group of clinicians, scientists, social entrepreneurs and crossbench peers writing in The Lancet and setting out a manifesto for a health-creating society — a positive vision of how the UK can promote and improve health and at the same time strengthen the economy of the country.
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