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Nov 21, 2019 6 tweets 3 min read Read on X
The @LibDems manifesto published yesterday has fair amount of public health in it. Will be interesting to see how @UKLabour and @Conservatives compare.

libdems.org.uk/plan
In @LibDems plan, good to see pledges around whole-gov approaches to health/wellbeing (National Wellbeing Strategy etc) and a commitment to reinstating public health cuts (although unclear if will fully reinstate real term per head cuts).
Plus some likely useful steps on obesity with expanding soft drink levy to milk based drinks, restricting marketing, and menu labeling, legislation to protect against air pollution, and introducing #MUP for alcohol.
Plenty more in there, including proposal for making it a statutory responsibility to introduce cost-effectiveness NICE PH guidance w/i 3 months. Not sure how that is possibly workable?

As always, the challenge with all of this is making it happen and achieving sustainable change
And @JenniferTHF response to it (incl broader comment on health and social care stuff) here: health.org.uk/news-and-comme…
And finally, the most pressing public health issue of our age is climate change. There’s lots in here, incl no non-elec vehicles by 2030, investment in renewables etc.

But the commitment to net zero by 2045 is still going to be too little too late.

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

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Jun 28, 2023
Out in @Telegraph today (no ££-wall)

Tl,dr: Scotland has shown that minimum unit pricing works but as deaths from alcohol rise, the government remains silent on alcohol policy in England.

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
Yesterday, the Scottish government published the final Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) evaluation report.

It showed:
- alcohol deaths ⬇️13%
- hospital admissions ⬇️4%
-⬇️inequalities
- no obv impact on business

publichealthscotland.scot/publications/e…
Public Health Scotland now supports MUP and Wales implemented it in 2020.

But England hasn't had a national alcohol strategy since 2012.

gov.uk/government/pub…
Read 16 tweets
Jun 17, 2023
I know I'm late to this news and shouldn't be in any way surprised, but it is still so utterly infuriating.

Delayed again until 2025 pending a review.

Very short🧵

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-659367…
Gov data shows how price promos are more likely to be applied to unhealthy junk food rather than healthier foods.

And rather than saving people ££, they can lead to around 22% *more* purchases than would otherwise happen, with *more* money spent and *more* consumption. Image
That's why companies use these promotions.

That's also why the policy was in the obesity strategy in the first place. The irony being that it is more likely to help than hinder the impact of the cost of living crisis on individuals and families.
Read 11 tweets
Mar 10, 2023
In today's @Telegraph, Sally O'Brien & I discuss @HealthFdn / @IpsosUK polling results on public attitudes to gov policy on alcohol, tobacco, & unhealthy food (no £-wall🔓)

🧵Tl,dr: While gov has a preference for individual responsibility, the public still think gov should act.
Gains in healthy life-expectancy have stalled, childhood obesity continues to rise, alcohol-related hospital admissions are up, and tobacco still causes over 500,000 admissions a year.

And there are huge inequalities with more deprived areas disproportionately impacted. ImageImageImageImage
Yet the recent trend of unwinding public health policy continues.

The tobacco control plan is unpublished, junk food ad bans have been delayed, plans for a national approach to health inequalities have gone & there's been nothing on alcohol since 2012.

health.org.uk/news-and-comme…
Read 19 tweets
Oct 27, 2022
This week's @UKHSA COVID and Flu surveillance report came out today.

tl,dr: COVID rates are falling but Flu case rates on the up, as is RSV.

gov.uk/government/sta…
First the good news. COVID cases in hospital clearly falling, in all ages, regions (except perhaps still plateauing in Yorkshire and Humber).

There's still a lag on cases in intensive care and on deaths, but they'll drop soon as well.
Flu, however, seems to be on the rise.

Overall case & admission rates are relatively low, but trending up.

And with a higher % of lab respiratory samples (sent in by dr from people with chest symptoms) testing for flu than at the same time in the past 5 yrs. i.e., it's early
Read 12 tweets
Oct 26, 2022
This is a really helpful and timely piece of work by @davidfinchthf.

Along with last week's @TheIFS report on how government ££ are spent, it's clear that we need to do more to align public health funding with local needs. 🧵

ifs.org.uk/publications/d…
Over the last decade, gains in life expectancy in England have stalled.
And it will be no surprise that the impact has not been felt evenly by everyone.

While life expectancy continues to increase for people living in the least deprived parts of the country, people from the most deprived communities are dying earlier.

It's entirely avoidable.
Read 22 tweets
Sep 13, 2022
This type of shortsighted policy review has reared its head again.

Health is an *asset* & the types of obesity policies being looked at here are exactly the ones that are both most effective AND most likely to narrow inequalities. 🧵

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Rates of obesity and overweight among children took a huge jump during the pandemic - particularly among more deprived communities.

In an average yr 6 class of 30, 12 will have overweight or obesity.

This thread discusses the data in detail 👇
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The government is aiming to halve childhood obesity by 2030 and reduce inequalities.

As have said previously, obesity is complex and multifaceted. No one policy will do it and instead it needs a multifaceted solution.

health.org.uk/publications/r…
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