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Preventing accidental injury: priorities for action

Report to the Chief Medical Officer

Document type:

Guidance
Author:

Department of Health
Published date:

11 October 2002
Primary audience:

Professionals
Product number:

011322477X
Gateway reference:

2002
Pages:

78
Copyright holder:

Crown copyright

This report by the Accidental Injury Task Force offers a practical way forward to cross-Government action which would have the greatest impact in preventing injury. It suggests that for relatively modest investment good progress can be made quickly towards the achievement of the 2010 target delivered in the 1999 White Paper Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation . The benefits, in terms of deaths and illness which will be averted, will be immediate and the gains to society very great.