Prevention in health and social care : proposal to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry

In January 2023 the Health and Social Care Select Committee announced an inquiry in to prevention in health and social care. 

In recognition of the wide-ranging nature of this issue, the committee invited proposals from organisations to help them agree a scope for the inquiry. 

The NHS Confederation's proposal emphasised the need to take a system-wide approach and to view prevention through the lens of the second core purpose of Integrated Care Systems (ICS) which pertains to population health, health inequalities and prevention. 

The proposal also encouraged the committee with work in partnership with others to consider how embedding prevention can be a truly cross-Whitehall endeavour given 80 per cent of what drives health and wellbeing are factors outside the health system.