Policy responses and statements

Name of organisation:: Department of Health, Social Services & Public Safety (DHSSPS)
Name of policy document:: Fit and Well: Changing Lives - 2012-2022: A 10-Year Public Health Strategic Framework for Northern Ireland
Deadline for response:: 31 October 2012

Background: This document proposes an updated Strategic Direction for Public Health for the next 10 years, bringing together actions at government level to improve health and reduce health inequalities, and which will guide implementation at regional and local level.

This is a consultation document and as such is intended to be formative. What this seeks to achieve:

This is a high-level strategic document which seeks to reinvigorate action on current and future public health and wellbeing priorities. It will -

build on and promote the values, principles and successes of Investing for Health
take account of emerging social, economic and policy developments as well as new bodies of evidence available
provide vision and updated strategic direction
facilitate whole-government synergy to address the range of key socio-economic factors which influence health and wellbeing
provide direction for delivery and implementation at the regional and local levels through partnership working

Download the response by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of the UK

Fit and Well: Changing Lives - 2012-2022: A 10-Year Public Health Strategic Framework for Northern Ireland

Copies of this response are available from:

Lesley Lockhart,
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh,
9 Queen Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 1JQ.

Tel: 0131 225 7324 ext 608
Fax: 0131 220 3939

[26 October 2012]