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Event date
10 July 2019
Event time
09.00-10.30

Prevention is a key priority in the NHS Long Term Plan and underpins Matt Hancock’s key focus as Secretary of Health and Social Care – ‘prevention is better than cure: our vision to help you live longer’.

Speaker: Jonathan Marron, Director General of Community and Social Care at the Department of Health and Social Care

At this opportune time around the publication of the expected Green Paper on Prevention, we will hear directly from Jonathan Marron, Director General Community and Social Care at the Department of Health and Social Care, on how Government will attain its goal to improve healthy life expectancy by at least 5 extra years by 2035, and close the gap between the richest and poorest. 

Read more on the goverment’s prevention plans here

If you would like further information, please email marjan.jamal@policyconnect.org.uk or call 020 72028580

 

 

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