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Investment to prevent ill health
Preventing ill health requires dismantling of the structures that have failed
BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r560 (Published 25 March 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r560
- John Ashcroft, locum general practitioner
- Derby, UK
- jsashcroft{at}gmail.com
Salisbury is right that preventing ill health requires investment,1 but we have been here before. In October 2014 Simon Stevens brought out his Five Year Forward View: “The first argument . . . is that the future health of millions of children, the sustainability of the NHS, and the economic prosperity of Britain all now depend on a radical upgrade in prevention and public health.”2
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