Govt. push for illness prevention is 'watershed' moment

When Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock announced the government's ‘Prevention is better than cure' vision and corresponding green paper on Monday, it echoed what members of the healthcare and life insurance industry have been arguing for years. Addressing the Annual Meeting of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes, he said: "Prevention… is about ensuring people take greater responsibility for managing their own health. It is about choosing to look after themselves better, staying active and stopping smoking; making better choices by limiting alcoh...