2. Enabling health independence and well-being
This chapter on health, independence and well-being includes the following commitments: * developing an NHS 'Life Check' starting in Primary Care Trust (PCT) spearhead areas; * better support for mental health and emotional well-being: promoting good practice; demonstration sites for people of working age, as part of our action to help people with health conditions and disabilities to remain in, or return to, work; access to computerised cognitive behaviour therapy; * local leadership of well-being: improving commissioning and joint working through defining and strengthening the roles of Directors of Public Health (DPHs) and Directors of Adult Social Services (DASSs); * better partnership working in local areas: a new outcomes framework; aligning performance measures, assessments and inspection; aligning planning and budget cycles for the NHS and local authorities; * stronger local commissioning: shifting towards prevention and early support; expanding the evidence base through Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPPs); National Reference Group for Health and Well-Being; re-focusing the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF); * national leadership: stronger leadership for social care within the Department of Health; a new Fitter Britain campaign.
