East End to Test Health Police Plan
Posted on: Monday, 21 November 2005, 15:00 CST
PEOPLE in the east end of Glasgow are to be the first in Scotland to have "health police" knocking on their doors, urging them to change their lifestyle.
Health Minister Andy Kerr today announced the city would be one of five areas to test the "anticipatory care" strategy, a GBP25million experiment designed to prevent people becoming ill.
The east end of Glasgow is expected to be among the first schemes to begin next year as it has the worst health record in the UK.
As revealed by the Evening Times last month, those most at risk of ill health will be targeted in a bid to stop them ending up in hospital.
The Prevention 2010 project will pay for staff, dubbed "health police" to find people in deprived communities whose health is put at risk by their lifestyle.
Speaking at the fourth Healthy Scotland convention in the city, Mr Kerr said: "We need to shift the focus of the NHS from illness to wellbeing, from treating ill health to preventing it."
Five community health partnerships will be selected for the scheme from four health boards:
Greater Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Lothian and Tayside. All five projects will be running by 2007.
Source: Evening Times; Glasgow (UK)
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