Policy - Health

27th October 2011

Bow Group calls for New Vision for Hospices

Dr Daniel Poulter MP, Stuart Carroll, Gary Jones and Ross Carroll

The Bow Group and Dr Daniel Poulter MP have jointly produced a new target policy paper reflecting on the UK’s ageing population and the concurrent increase in chronic long-term conditions and setting out how the hospice movement should look in the future.

1st September 2011

Bow Group responds to the Children's Food Campaign Criticism of Change4Life

The Bow Group Health & Education Policy Committee

On 31st August 2011 the Guardian published an article Obesity plan could cost shoppers dear which featured criticism from the Children’s Food Campaign about the Government’s Change4Life voucher initiative.

6th August 2011

Bow Group Health & Education Policy Committee Backs Call to Pull Plug on Labour’s Shambolic NHS IT Labyrinth

On 3rd August 2011, the Public Accounts Committee published its report on the National Programme for IT in the NHS. In doing so, the Committee highlighted the catastrophic and atrophic failure of the previous Labour Government’s hopelessly inadequate NHS IT policy.

31st July 2011

Bow Group Health & Education Policy Committee Welcomes Government’s Support for Public Health Submission and Obesity Research Paper

In March 2011, the Bow Group Health & Education Policy Committee formally submitted evidence to the Government’s public health white paper consultation following the publication of ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: our strategy for public health in England’.

26th July 2011

Reforming and Improving the NHS

Dr Dan Poulter MP

Writing in Crossbow Dr Dan Poulter MP, member of the Health Select Committee, sets out his thoughts on the Coalition’s NHS proposals.

24th June 2011

Why Lansley’s NHS reforms are more evolution than revolution

Ross Carroll

Writing in Crossbow Ross Carroll, Member of the Bow Group Health and Education Policy Committee, sets out his thoughts on the Coalition’s NHS proposals.

10th June 2011

Bow Group Submission to Health Select Committee Public Health Inquiry

Stuart Carroll, Gary Jones and Ross Carroll

On 10th June 2011, the Bow Group Health & Education Policy Committee submitted written evidence to the Health Select Committee’s inquiry into public health. This follows the Bow Group’s recent submission to the Department of Health’s public consultation on the Government’s public health White Paper, ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our Strategy for Public Health in England’. The submission can be downloaded below.

1st June 2011

Target Paper - Obesity Epidemic, Paranoia or Evidence Based?

Thomas Kelley, Stuart Carroll, Gary Jones & Jennifer White with a foreword from Professor David Haslam

The Bow Health & Education Policy Committee has today published a new target policy paper, "Obesity Epidemic - Paranoia or Evidence Based?"

13th April 2011

Does the Public Health White Paper Truly Seize Opportunities to Improve Health?

Stuart Carroll

In February 2011, the Bow Group Health & Education Policy Committee submitted written evidence as part of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Primary Care and Public Health's special inquiry into the Government's public health White Paper.

29th March 2011

Bow Group Response to White Paper on public health

Bow Group Health and Education Policy Committee

On 30th November 2010, the Coalition Government published its eagerly anticipated White Paper on public health, ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our Strategy for Public Health in England’. The near 100 page document – significantly more bulky and lengthy than the Government’s first offering,