This chapter sets out how the NHS, as it tackles waiting for treatment successfully, will increasingly become a health improvement and prevention ser vice, supporting individuals in the healthy informed choices that they make. It includes measures to:
- help local health services to plan and deliver effective action to tackle inequalities and improve health;
- make the most of the millions of encounters that the NHS has with people every week;
- ensure that all NHS staff have training and support to embed health improvement in their day-to-day work with patients;
- address the needs of people at particular risk; and
- ensure that health improvement and prevention services - such as sexual health services, NHS Stop Smoking Services, obesity services and alcohol services - benefit fully from the same drive for modernisation and improvement that exists across the rest of the NHS.
