Health inequalities: How does PBC fit with health inequalities?
Answer PBC offers opportunities for tackling health inequalities and for investment in prevention services Resources freed up can be reinvested in services that will aim to prevent ill health and tackle health inequality. There will be a need for practices to engage with other partners in provision of services – often outside the health arena. This may be difficult and frustrating, but long term goals of better health will be the driver. In the future, local targets will be delivered through LAAs and other local agreements and there will be a need for services to be joined up in their approach. Practices will need to understand the drivers behind local health issues. Practices can tackle ill health through a more coherent approach, but in return, they will be expected to direct more of their resource in to tackling the issues that rest behind health-relevant agendas – such as crime and education. Clustering of practices to map on to local authority boundaries can only enhance this serv
