Early interventions

The following selected resources can be used to inform service improvement and uptake. Includes sections: 'General disease prevention', 'NHS Health Checks', 'Social prescribing', 'Vaccination' and 'Screening'.

General disease prevention

• All Our Health: personalised care and population health - collection published by Public Health England. A framework of evidence, including a range of e-learning bite-sized sessions - to guide healthcare professionals in preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing.
• Better Health campaign - overview and campaign resources published by Public Health England and Better Health webpage tools for the public published on the NHS website
• Achieving behaviour change: a guide for local government and partners (2020) published by Public Health England
• A Menu of Interventions for Productive Healthy Ageing - For pharmacy teams working in different settings (2019) published by Public Health England.
• Health matters: preventing cardiovascular disease (2019) - guidance published by Public Health England
• Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management - NICE guideline [NG136] (2019)
• CVDPrevent - a new national cardiovascular disease prevention audit for primary care
• Cardiovascular disease prevention: cost-effective commissioning, including a CVD Return on Investment tool (2018) - guidance published by Public Health England
• Health matters: preventing Type 2 diabetes (2018) - guidance published by Public Health England
• Improving people’s health: Applying behavioural and social sciences to improve population health and wellbeing in England (2018) published by Public Health England
• Health matters: midlife approaches to reduce dementia risk (2016) - guidance published by Public Health England
• Changing risk behaviours and promoting cognitive health in older adults (2016) - an evidence-based resource published by Public Health England
• See also the healthy & risk behaviours section
• See also the physical health conditions section
• See also the mental health & wellbeing section

NHS Health Check

• NHS Health Check published by the NHS website 
• NHS Health Check Quarterly Statistics - reports published by Public Health England
• NHS Health Check profile tool - a data profiling tool highlighting local level variation and trends in quarterly and annual data on offer and uptake published by Public Health England 
• NHS Health Check Programme Dashboard - published by NHS Digital and Public Health England focusses on patients attending and not attending and includes data at a local level on age, sex and ethnicity
• NHS Health Checks: applying All Our Health - guidance on reaching high-risk and vulnerable communities published by Public Health England
• Evaluation of the uptake and delivery of the NHS Health Check programme in England, using primary care data from 9.5 million people: a cross-sectional study (2020) - Patel,R. et al paper published in BMJ Open
• Announcement of review of NHS Health Check Service (2019) The review will explore how to improve the system, with a focus on offering personalised interventions
• NHS Health Check - Dementia training resources (2019) published via collaboration by Alzheimer’s Society, Alzheimer’s Research UK and Public Health England
• Guidance: Using the NHS Health Check programme to prevent CVD (2018) published by Public Health England

Social prescribing

• Social Prescribing published by NHS England
• Social Prescribing Network - including research and evaluation resources 
  
• National Academy for Social Prescribing - "Dedicated to the advancement of social prescribing through promotion, collaboration and innovation"
• Social prescribing: applying All Our Health (2019) published by Public Health England
• News  - NHS England will fund 1,000 social prescribing workers to support practices (Jan 2019) published by Pulse
• NHS Long Term Plan - Chapter 1 (2019) - including outline of plan to increase trained social prescribing link workers - published by NHS England 
• News story - Social prescribing schemes across England to receive £4.5 million (July 2018) published by the Department of Health and Social Care
• Just what the doctor ordered. Social prescribing - a guide for local authorities (2016) published by the Local Government Association

Vaccination

• COVID-19 vaccination programme published by Public Health England
• COVID-19 vaccine surveillance reports published by Public Health England
• COVID-19 vaccination programme published by NHS England and NHS Improvement
• Coronavirus and vaccination rates in people aged 70 years and over by socio-demographic characteristic, England: 8 December 2020 to 9 May 2021 (2021) published by the Office for National Statistics
• Productive Healthy Ageing Profile includes flu, PPV and shingles vaccination in older people indicators at local, region and national level, published by Public Health England
• Health matters: delivering the flu immunisation programme during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) - guidance published by Public Health England
• Annual Flu Programme published by Public Health England
• Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) programme - guidance for general practices published by NHS Digital
• Shingles: guidance and vaccination programme published by Public Health England
• Collection: Vaccine uptake guidance and the latest coverage data published by Public Health England
• Tessier, E. et al (2018). Population-level factors predicting variation in influenza vaccine uptake among adults and young children in England, 2015/16 and 2016/17
• Ward, C. et al (2017). Sociodemographic predictors of variation in coverage of the national shingles vaccination programme in England, 2014/15

Screening

• Productive Healthy Ageing Profile includes various screening in older people indicators at local, region and national level, published by Public Health England
• Population screening: applying All Our Health - guidance published by Public Health England to support health and care professionals prevent ill health and promote wellbeing as part of their everyday practice. 
• NHS breast screening programme published by Public Health England
• NHS cervical screening programme published by Public Health England
• NHS bowel cancer screening programme published by Public Health England
• NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) programme published by Public Health England
• Guidance: NHS population screening: education and training - resources to support screening professionals published by Public Health England
• UK National Screening Committee website
  
• PHE Screening’s inequalities strategy (2018) published by Public Health England
• Guidance: Health matters: making cervical screening more accessible (2017) published by Public Health England
• Guidance: Health matters: improving the prevention and diagnosis of bowel cancer (2016) published by Public Health England