Website of the Department of Health

For help in completing the questions, you may need to contact various people for their expert opinion or information. 

• Your Departmental Better Regulation Unit and Santosh Dass (020 7972 5319) of the Department of Health's BRU can provide general advice on completing IAs.
• For more detailed advice on how to assess health impacts please contact:
  Colleen Williams (020 7972 3723) or Sue Maisey (020 7972 3732) of Public Health Development at the Department of Health.
• You may wish to consult officials responsible for areas such as epidemiology, toxicology and social research or other government departments.

Advice and evidence is also available on the following websites, which can help you identify health impacts of your policy proposal.

• Information on health protection (opens new window)
• Information on health inequalities
• Health Impact Assessment Gateway (opens new window)
• Association of Public Health Observatories (opens new window)
• London Health Observatory (opens new window)
• Download Policy Appraisal and Health (PDF, 330K)