Approaches to addressing health inequalities
The NHS 2022/23 priorities and operational planning guidance, sets a lead role for Integrated Care Systems in tackling health inequalities.
The guidance highlights that people from socioeconomically deprived populations and certain ethnic groups experience poorer health. So, it's particularly important to focus preventative services on these groups.
Use the dropdowns on this page to view NICE guidance that can help integrated care systems when developing their approaches to addressing health inequalities
NG44/QS148: Community engagement: improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities
PH6 Behaviour change: general approaches
PH49 Behaviour change: individual approaches
NG183 Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Primary Research Report 1: Community engagement – approaches to improve health: map of current practice based on a case study approach.
Shared decision making learning package Keele University and NICE have worked in partnership to develop an online learning package. This is suitable for all healthcare professionals and aims to equip people with the skills and knowledge they need to have good-quality shared decision-making conversations with the people they are caring for.
Standards framework for shared-decision-making support tools, including patient decision aids. A series of standards to support people using patient decision aids (PDAs) in assessing the usefulness and quality of a PDA. The framework will also be useful to those developing PDAs in enabling them to undertake a self-assessment of the quality of their tools and processes.
Breaking Free Group has produced a confidential wellness and recovery support program for alcohol and drugs resource. Its content supports the implementation of recommendations in the NICE guideline on individual approaches to behaviour change. It also supports the NICE guideline on general approaches to behaviour change.