Detailed Analysis of the UK Health Policy White Paper (2010)

This report provides a detailed analysis of the UK Health White Paper published in 2010. The paper, presented to the UK Parliament, outlined the government's commitment to improving public health. The objectives included enhancing maternal and child health, reducing premature deaths, and protecting the population from health threats. Key features encompassed legislative measures to empower local communities and promote innovation. The White Paper emphasized the importance of localism, national funding, and accountability. The proposals aimed to address health inequalities and improve health outcomes. The analysis explores the fund transfer for the Health Protection Agency and the National Treatment Agency, along with the importance of funding for the public health policy and the commission system. The White Paper's outcomes include the creation of the Public Health Fund in England and other measures to improve the overall health and wellbeing of the UK population.

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 The White Paper of 1939 was passed in the year 2010 on 30th November. The paper was
presented in the Parliament of UK in response to the rising concerns of the health of the
public the country. The White Paper therefore outlined the commitment of the United
Kingdom in protecting the population of the country against the serious form of public
health and to improve the public health at a faster rate (Braithwaite 2017).
 The main objectives of this White paper are :
 The policy outlined the main goal that will achieve the excellent results
underlining the innovation strategies that will liberate the skills of the
professional leadership among the different people. The White Paper also
builds its premise on the Equity and the Excellence level that will liberate
the National Health Scheme of the Nation to set out the overall principles
and the framework for the implementation of the policies of health in U.K.
 The White Paper on the Health Policy of U.K will be subject to the local
government bodies as well as the local communities that will be necessary
to improve the health and the wellbeing of the populations of U.K in
tackling the various forms of inequalities. After one year of the
presentation of the White paper in 2011, the Department of Health of U.K
has also published the various documents that will build up on the
approach of mental health, control on the use of tobacco, obesity , sexual
health and the other pandemic flu infections (Ward, Wells and Kipping
2019).

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 Finally, the policy was drafted in such a manner which will enable it to
function in integration with the developed form of administration that will
function on the basis of the shared form of interests.
 The proposals of the 1939 White Paper exhibited the aims through the following key
features:
1. To improve the maternal at its topmost priority and to give the
children of U.K a better start to their life and to reduce the infant
mortality rate along with the issues of the low weight of the new
born babies. The White Paper also aimed at the better care of the
new born babies and the development of the educational
attainment and the subsequent reduction of the risks of the mental
illness regarding the unhealthy lifestyles and regarding the hospital
admissions of the ailing population. (Kopeć 2016).
2. To supervise the behavior of the adults in order to reduce the level
of the premature deaths , the various factors of illness and the other
factors like the costs of providing a substantial healthcare for
mainly the cancer patients , for treating the vascular dementias that
will be spent on the handling of the crimes fuelled by the overuse
of drugs.. (Rubery 2018).
3. The White Paper has also focused on the reduction of mainly the
winter deaths that almost accounted to the 35000 in the year 2008-
09 that will be made possible by the warmer housing and by the
seasonal flu vaccinations. Apart from these the White Paper also

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focused on the protection of the population in general of the U.K
against the major health threats and to tackle the wider factors of
the public health policy that will be provided along the strong
system to the frontline (Stickley et.al 2018).
4. The White Paper on the health of the UK citizens will reflect the
core values of the different factors of freedom, the different
degrees of fairness and the different degrees of responsibility by
strengthening the different degrees of healthy behaviors and the
lifestyles of the citizens of U.K (Abubakar et.al 2018).
 The White Paper on the European Social Policy also enacted several legislative
measures like :
1. The several legislative measures will lead the UK government to
shift its power to the different local communities that will enable
them to improve the health of the local population. The White
Paper will also highlight the local innovation techniques in order
to reduce the inequalities that prevail at the key stages of the
people’s lives.
2. The White Paper will also adopt a coherent approach that will
give every new born child for the best form of start in their life.
The entire process will be carried out in the phased manner in
order to reduce the poverty levels among the (Lawton and Rudd
2016).

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3. The White Paper has also made the compulsory payment
structure for carrying out the various voluntary forms of the
health welfare reforms across the various sectors.
 The White Paper also stressed on the strengthening the cooperation measures and the
action plan of the Union in general. The basic elements of this proposition are :
1. To support the new agency and approach for avoiding the
problems of the past where the people will need to reform the
mechanism of the working of the public health policy. In this
context we can talk about the localism factor that will be the
core priority of the system mainly in the emergency cases of
the health protection cases (Campbell et.al 2019).
2. To place the country under the national response team of the
public funding on the health of the citizens of U.K that will
lead to the reduction in the costs and will enhance the gains in
the efficiency of the required system (Ford et.al 2020).
3. The parliament of U.K has also planned for the various ring
fenced budget for the upper tier and the other unitary
locations for establishing the new health premium to reward
the required people for the progress made in the healthcare
sector to determine the various approaches of the public
health outcomes (Brown 2018).
The outcome of the Key Proposals of the White Paper on the European Social Reforms can be
stated as:

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 Mastering the strategy in order to make the substantial level of progress so that it can lead
to the subject to the substantial progress that will highlight the real differences to health
resulting from the earliest opportunity (Keeble, et.al 2020).
 The creation of the Public Health Fund in England which will take on the various
responsibilities from 2012 onwards that will include the formal transfer of the different
functions and the power of the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and the National
Treatment Agency for the Substantive misuse of the health standards.
 The transfer the improvement functions of the local health policy along with the funding
pattern that will be allocated to the local government agencies.
 The increase in the local accountability mechanism along with the supporting integration
measures that will work for the social care under the National Health Scheme of U.K
(Paton 2016).
 The consultation of the different documents that will propose the health outcomes of the
funding and the commission system that will be required for the commissioning
arrangement s for the public health policy

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