High quality care for all NHS Next Stage Review - Antibiotic Action

High Quality Care For All – NHS Next Stage Review Final Report9effective, personal and safe. It will seethe NHS deliver high quality care for allusers of services in all aspects, not justsome. I set out below the key steps wemust take to deliver this vision.High quality care for patients andthe publicThroughout this Review, I have heardclearly and consistently that people wanta greater degree of control and influenceover their health and healthcare. Ifanything, this is even more important forthose who for a variety of reasons findit harder to seek out services or makethemselves heard.Personalising services means makingservices fit for everyone’s needs, notjust those of the people who make theloudest demands. When they need it,all patients want care that is personalto them. 2 That includes those peopletraditionally less likely to seek help orwho find themselves discriminatedagainst in some way. The visionspublished in each NHS region makeclear that more support is needed forall people to help them stay healthyand particularly to improve the healthof those most in need. Chapter 3explains how we will do this including byintroducing new measures to:Create an NHS that helps peopleto stay healthy. For the NHS to besustainable in the 21 st century it needsto focus on improving health as well astreating sickness. This is not about the‘nanny state’. As a clinician, I believe that2 Opinion Leader Research, Key findings of 18September 2007 Our NHS, Our Future nationwideconsultative event.the NHS has a responsibility to promotegood health as well as tackle illness.Achieving this goal requires the NHSto work in partnership with the manyother agencies that also seek to promotehealth. Much progress on closer workinghas been made in recent years. In linewith my terms of reference, 3 this reportsfocuses on what the NHS can do toimprove the prevention of ill health.The immediate steps identified by thisReview are:• Every primary care trust willcommission comprehensivewellbeing and preventionservices, in partnership with localauthorities, with the servicesoffered personalised to meetthe specific needs of their localpopulations. Our efforts must befocused on six key goals: tacklingobesity, reducing alcohol harm,treating drug addiction, reducingsmoking rates, improving sexual healthand improving mental health.• A Coalition for Better Health, witha set of new voluntary agreementsbetween the Government, privateand third sector organisationson actions to improve healthoutcomes. Focused initially oncombatting obesity, the Coalitionwill be based on agreements toensure healthier food, to get morepeople more physically active, and toencourage companies to invest morein the health of their workforce.3 Terms of Reference available atwww.ournhs.nhs.uk